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Quotations on Gardens 10 Quotes Found People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night. I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it. No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated. There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries. And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican. Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me. I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants. |
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