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 garden doesn't like to be ignored like this. It doesn't like to be covered in dust sheets, as though it were an old room which you had shut up during the winter. Especially since a garden knows how gay and delightful it can be, even in the very frozen heart of the winter, if you only give it a chance.
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
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
A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.
Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person. - Beverley Nichols
Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.
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
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…
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
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 …
To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this? - Beverley Nichols
To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace. - Beverley Nichols
We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
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
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…
Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things? - Beverley Nichols
Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?
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