Alfred Austin Garden Quotations

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.

A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography.

We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.