“In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.” WayValuesEnemyPiecesCreationPaintingGoes OnGardenPassingPassingsUselessSculptureGardenerPartingTime PassingSlipperyTime PassesTime Goes OnCountdown Book:My Garden (Book) Source: My Garden (Book)
“I could go on and on. But that is just what gardening is, going on and on. My philistine of a husband often told with amusement how a cousin when asked when he expected to finish his garden replied 'Never, I hope'. And that, I think, applies to all true gardeners.” ThinkingGoes OnHusbandGardenExpectedGardeningCousinAmusementGardenerPhilistines Author:Margery Fish
“When I received the invitation to "check out" Fairport I knew absolutely nothing about them, all I knew was that they were beginning to establish themselves as an underground favorite, by playing regularly at the UFO club in Covent Garden. But the crowd I was running with at the time were listening to a completely different genre of music. So I had nothing to go on, there was nothing on vinyl, Fairport's recording days were still ahead of them.” StillsDifferentRunningListeningGoes OnGardenCrowdsClubsChecksGenreInvitationsUfoAbsolutely NothingVinylDifferent GenresGenres Of MusicCovent GardenDifferent Genres Of Music Author:Iain Matthews
“She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing about for hundreds of years, but she also knew, from those same books, that there were people who never recover form it, ones who go on through life beset by a dim and painful longing.” PeopleWritingYearsBookFormRelationshipSpecialPoetGoes OnGardenLongingPainfulVarietyNovelists Author:Sarah Dunn
“My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.” CareNatureSilenceSweetGoes OnGardenSmellBarsGatesScentFragrancePulseComes And GoesAirySweet Music Book:Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Source: Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country