Sunday 31 January 2010

Friday 29 January 2010

In nature ...

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments;
there are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Wednesday 27 January 2010

A garden is always ....

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few
triumphs, like life itself.
Mary Sarton

Monday 25 January 2010

Perfumes are the feelings ...

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
Heinrich Heine

Saturday 23 January 2010

No occupation is so delightful ....

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth,
and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
Thomas Jefferson

Thursday 21 January 2010

Happiness grows at our own firesides ....

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to
be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas William Jerrold

Tuesday 19 January 2010

An addiction to gardening ...

An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider
all the other choices in life.
Cora Lea Bell

Sunday 17 January 2010

The best part of beauty ...

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis Bacon

Saturday 16 January 2010

When the world wearies ... there is always the garden

When the world wearies and society ceases to please, there is always the garden.
Minnie Aumonier

Thursday 14 January 2010

.... wisdom from a flower

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
Mary Howitt

Tuesday 12 January 2010

The greatest gift of the garden ...

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.
Hanna Rion

Sunday 10 January 2010

With gardening, you're always learning ....

With gardening, you're always learning things, just when you
thought you knew it all.
Carmen Calill

Friday 8 January 2010

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps ....

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps,
Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Wednesday 6 January 2010

A flower touches everyone's heart

A flower touches everyone's heart.
Georgia O'Keefe

Monday 4 January 2010

Life is a maze...

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learned to walk.
Cyril Connolly

Saturday 2 January 2010

Anyone who keeps the ability ....

Hello and welcome to my new blog, which marks the start of 2010. The Garden Book of Days will be published every other day and will feature gardens, garden scenes and plants from around the world. When they are cross-referenced to a garden that I have visited in my other blog: "The Galloping Gardener", there will be a link for you to click to see the garden review.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka