Beverley Nichols Garden Quotations

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.

I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to cut off your wife's leg, stick it in the lawn, and be greeted on the following day by an entirely new woman, sprung from the leg, advancing across the lawn to meet you.

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.

To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?