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John Evelyn was an English writer renowned for his passion for nature and horticulture. His work, 'Sylva', had a profound impact on subsequent natural literature.

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“I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.”

Play Age Saws Disgusting Refined Denmark

Author:John Evelyn

“We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory.”

Men Has Beens Flower Holy Glory Roots Plant Scripture Graves Buried Fading Holy Scriptures Dishonor Emblems

Author:John Evelyn

“By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.”

Stills Reason Quality Moral Influence Food Universal Foundation Cooking Property Including Culinary Principal Tribes Beneficial Chastity Temperance Lettuce

Author:John Evelyn

“I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.”

Men Kind Food Roots Cooking All Kinds Meat Confused Culinary

Book:John Evelyn, Cook: The Manuscript Receipt Book of John Evelyn

Source: John Evelyn, Cook: The Manuscript Receipt Book of John Evelyn

“As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep it, so nor will our Gardens remain long in their perfection unless they are also continually cultivated.”

Men Long He Man Garden Perfection Dresses Paradise

Book:Miscellaneous writings

Source: Miscellaneous writings

“Explore everything; keep the best”

Author:John Evelyn

“Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.”

World Heart Real Friendship Patience Golden Ties Thread Real Friends Eulogy Tapestry Friendship Day Happy Friendship Happy Friendship Day

Author:John Evelyn

“Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.”

Natural Education Knowledge Learning Serious Healthy Garden Experience Satisfaction Educational Contemplation Labour Gardening Longevity Tranquility

Book:Silva: or, a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions

Source: Silva: or, a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions

“The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits.”

Years Ends Time Next Memories Work Seasons Plant Fruit Cycles Anticipation Timing Gardener Timeliness

Author:John Evelyn

“Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes, that there are none more fit to bury our dead in than in our Gardens and Groves, where our Beds may be decked with verdant and fragrant flowers, Trees and Perennial Plants, the most natural and instructive Hieroglyphics of our expected Resurrection and Immortality.”

May Death Religion Causes Natural Tree Dying Flower Fit Bed Garden Blessed Plant Expected Immortality Savior Resurrection Impermanence Grove Oratory Hieroglyphics Fragrant Flowers

Author:John Evelyn

“This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.”

Littles Romance Given Gentleman Knights Valiant

Author:John Evelyn

“A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.”

Years Ends Next Gardener

Author:John Evelyn

“Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.”

Persons Quality Garden Towns Cheating Cheated Refreshments Mulberry

Author:John Evelyn

“The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire habit of their bodies; so the Catarrhs,...Cough, and Consumption, range more in this one City, than in the whole Earth besides.”

Whole Body Age Earth Dark Cities Habit Clouds Breathe London Medical Range Thick Consumption Coal Lungs Mist Dark Ages

Author:John Evelyn

“Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.”

Wells Able Nuts Masculine Delicacy Chestnuts

Author:John Evelyn

“Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.”

Earth Found Food Nuts Dishes Truffles

Author:John Evelyn

About the Author

Born: October 31, 1620
Died: February 27, 1706
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 16

Books & Sources

John Evelyn, Cook: The Manuscript Receipt Book of John EvelynRelated source material

Miscellaneous writingsRelated source material

Silva: or, a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominionsRelated source material

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