The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
I miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.
The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
Summer makes a silence after spring.
The country habit has me by the heart, For he's bewitched forever who has seen, Not with his eyes but with his vision, Spring Flow down the woods and stipple leaves with sun.
I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves...
Gardening is a luxury occupation an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.
The more one gardens, the more one learns And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
I have come to the conclusion after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.
Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
There are no signposts in the sea.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories