Air Quote by Alfred de Vigny

In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the…

— W. S. Merwin

“We are sitting in a garden in a French town.”

— Paulo Coelho

[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.

— Mary Mapes Dodge

The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.

— M. Ward

What I love about French gardens is the combination of formal elegance and intellectual questioning.

— Monty Don

There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.

— Janine di Giovanni

“I think France reminds me of Missouri. I grew up there so i should know, but it does not remind me of Paris. NO,no,no.…

— Stevie Rae Cole

There's something about the air and the sky and the atmosphere in the South of France that must be very conducive to work, to…

— Joan Collins

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

“France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood.”

— Arnold Bennett

“Conversations in French bubble around me like a long-forgotten perfume I am desperate to inhale. Familiar words trickle back, first in a stream then…

— Pam Jenoff

In France, we have a geographic situation that is very exceptional, and it creates produce that is completely exceptional.

— Joel Robuchon