A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems,… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry. — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them.… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children. — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company. — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
