Alfred Austin: Garden

Alfred Austin was British writer and poet. Explore interesting quotes on garden.
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“Show me your garden, provided
it be your own, and I will tell you what you are
like.”

Alfred Austin

Source: The Garden that I Love (1905)

“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.”

Alfred Austin

Source: As quoted in Growing with the Seasons (2008) by Frank & Vicky Giannangelo, p. 115., and one or two other gardening books, as well as on various internet gardening sites and lists of quotations. However, it is sometimes attributed to Voltaire, and about one-third of the time it is quoted without attribution (at times even without quotation marks). It is not to be found in Austin's The Garden That I Love or any of its five sequels.

Soul , Nature , Sun , Heart

“Once learn how Nature gardens for herself, and you will be able to spare yourself a good deal of trouble.”

Alfred Austin

Source: The Garden That I Love (1894), p. 22.

Learning , Nature

“[E]xclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.”

Alfred Austin

Source: The Garden That I Love (1894), p. 117.

“[T]here is no gardening without humility, an assiduous willingness to learn, and a cheerful readiness to admit that you were mistaken. Nature is continually sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.”

Alfred Austin

Source: The Garden That I Love (1894), p. 13.

Learning , Nature

“A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one's personal history and that of one's friends, interwoven with one's tastes, preferences, and character, and constitutes a sort of unwritten, but withal manifest autobiography. Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like.”

Alfred Austin

Source: The Garden That I Love (1894), p. 112.

History , Personality

“No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.”

Alfred Austin

Source: The Garden That I Love (1894), p. 112.

“If you are not something of a philosopher,—and by philosophy I understand a serene temper, and the maintaining of an equable mind under the sharpest disappointments,—I do not advise you to cultivate, or at any rate to grow enamoured of, a garden.”

Alfred Austin

Source: In Veronica's Garden (1895), p. 92.

Understanding , Disappointment