I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

- John Evelyn

Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.

- John Evelyn

As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep it, so nor will our Gardens r…

- John Evelyn

By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to co…

- John Evelyn

Explore everything; keep the best

- John Evelyn

We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading bea…

- John Evelyn

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, exper…

- John Evelyn

The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corru…

- John Evelyn

A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.

- John Evelyn