Beverley Nichols Quotes

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• Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural…
• To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
• 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…
• It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.
• 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…
• We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
• A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.
• A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and…
• The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to…
• I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to…
• To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
• Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many…
• As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.
• A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.
• 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…
• 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…
• Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?
• A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic of the heather…
• Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

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