“Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.”
Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase
Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase
“Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.”
Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase
Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase
“The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd — till woman smiled.”
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer
Part II, line 37
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(1836-2) (Vol.47) Subjects for Pictures. III. Rienzi Showing Nina the Tomb of his Brother
The Monthly Magazine
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
To Varro, in Ad Familiares IX, 4
“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.”
Beryl Bainbridge (1932–2010) English novelist
The New York Times, March 1, 1981. http://partners.nytimes.com/books/98/11/29/specials/bainbridge-tenth.html
“The tantra masters are simply wild flowers, they have everything in them.”
Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement
Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)
Black Elk (1863–1950) Oglala Lakota leader
Source: Black Elk Speaks (1961), Ch. 17 : The First Cure
Context: Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our tepees were round like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation's hoop.