Flower Quotes by 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…

— Alfred Austin

Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke.

— Alfred Austin

Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are…

— Alfred Austin

Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say.

— Alfred Austin

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

— Alfred Austin

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

— Alfred Austin

He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.

— Alfred Austin

My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.

— Alfred Austin

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

— Alfred Austin

Tears are summer showers to the soul.

— 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,…

— Alfred Austin

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

— Alfred Austin

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

— Alfred Austin

There is no gardening without humility

— Alfred Austin

Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English…

— Alfred Austin