Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on … the world of beauty around us.

- Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that it is an …

- Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

Let us shun self-analyzation, self-consciousness, morbidness, affectation, attitudinizing. Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes …

- Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.

- Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer