“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.” NaturalEducationKnowledgeLearningSeriousHealthyGardenExperienceSatisfactionEducationalContemplationLabourGardeningLongevityTranquility 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
“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.” MayDeathReligionCausesNaturalTreeDyingFlowerFitBedGardenBlessedPlantExpectedImmortalitySaviorResurrectionImpermanenceGroveOratoryHieroglyphicsFragrant Flowers Author:John Evelyn
