“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.” MenLongHe ManGardenPerfectionDressesParadise Book:Miscellaneous writings Source: Miscellaneous writings
“Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.” MenMadeHomeGrowsWomenSunFieldsHe ManMastersGardenWindowTrainRoundsSettingSettingsToilShieldsVinesHoeEnclosure Author:Joanna Baillie
“I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.” MenWorldShouldWholeVirtueHe ManTasteEssentialsProjectsGardenWhole WorldAttributesGardening Author:Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne
“The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.” MenUseCoursesMiddleFieldsHe ManMaterialsFlowerGardenMathematicsExperimentsSubstanceBeesSpidersAntsCobwebs Author:Francis Bacon
“Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow fat, and stale, and dead, and heartbroken. Alas, they are so stupid. But you, little infant-woman with your first victory, you must make your love-life an unending chain of victories. Each day you must win your man again. And when you have won the last victory, when you can find no more to win, then ends love. Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.” ThinkingMenFirstsLittlesEndsLastsWinningGrowsWrittenStupidStrangeHe ManVictoryGardenDown AndFinalsFatsWanderChainsSettlingEach DayLove LifeAlasInfantHeartbrokenStaleSettling DownUnending Book:The Valley of the Moon: Classic American Literature Source: The Valley of the Moon: Classic American Literature
“The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.” MenMightFightingGrowsAcceptingHe ManGardenRoseDoctrineWeedLaissez Faire Author:John Ruskin