“Is it not Canon Hole who says: "He who would have beautiful roses in his garden, must have beautiful roses in his heart: he must love them well and always?"”
So, the flowers of your field, in so far as I am gardener, shall come from my heart where they reside in much good will; and my eye and hand shall attend merely to the cultivating, the weeding, the fungous blight, the noxious insect of the air, and the harmful worm below.
And so shall your garden grow; from the rich soil of the humanities it will rise up and unfold in beauty in the pure air of the spirit.
So shall your thoughts take up the sap of strong and generous impulse, and grow and branch, and run and climb and spread, blooming and fruiting, each after its kind, each flowing toward the fulfillment of its normal and complete desire. Some will so grow as to hug the earth in modest beauty; others will rise, through sunshine and storm, through drought and winter's snows year after year, to tower in the sky; and the birds of the air will nest therein and bring forth their young.
Such is the garden of the heart: so oft neglected and despised when fallow.
Verily, there needs a gardener, and many gardens.
Source: Kindergarten Chats (1918), Ch. 4 : The Garden
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Louis Sullivan 33
American architect 1856–1924Related quotes
(14th May 1825) Song
The London Literary Gazette, 1825
183e, M. Joyce, trans, Collected Dialogues of Plato (1961), p. 537
The Symposium
Discussion with Jefferson (1792)
Source: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 4
“Though one were fair as roses
His beauty clouds and closes.”
The Garden of Proserpine.
Undated
“He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.”
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Visions and Ideals
