Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, …

- Beverley Nichols

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

- Beverley Nichols

Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.

- Beverley Nichols

Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked …

- Beverley Nichols

Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I am quite sure that a gard…

- Beverley Nichols

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

- Beverley Nichols

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

- Beverley Nichols

Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out…

- Beverley Nichols

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

- Beverley Nichols