Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

- Alfred Austin

Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here.

- Alfred Austin

Is life worth living? Yes, so long as there is wrong to right. So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives, And gracious charity …

- Alfred Austin

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

- Alfred Austin

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

- Alfred Austin

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

- Alfred Austin

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

- Alfred Austin

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. Sha…

- Alfred Austin

Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger…

- Alfred Austin