Alfred Austin

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

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

“Who misses or who wins the prize. Go, lose or conquer as you can; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.”

“There is no gardening without humility.”

“Is life worth living? Yes, so long as there is laughter in it.”

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.”

“Fame is a food that dead men eat.”

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”