In nature nothing is perfect ...

In nature nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.

Alice Walker

Kiftsgate Court, Gloucestershire

Gardens ...

Gardens cannot be considered in detachment from the people who made them.

Derek Clifford

St Mary's House and Garden, West Sussex

A garden always gives back .....

A garden always gives back more than it receives.

Mara Beamish

Ventnor Botanic Garden, Isle of Wight

There is something fundamental ...

There is something fundamental to owning a garden that leaches

into every aspect of living.

Mirabel Osler

Barnsley House, Glos

No two gardens ...

No two gardens are the same. No two days

are the same in one garden.

Hugh Johnson

Longstock Water Park, Hampshire

It is good to be alone ...

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all

its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie

of suspended thought.

James Douglas

Monk's House, East Sussex

What we see ...

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

Gravetye Manor, West Sussex