Eleanor Perenyi Quotes
- To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.
- It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp…
- A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and hidden…
- Or perhaps you notice a congregation of ladybugs on a rose stalk. Don't invoke the old nursery saying and ask them to fly away home.…
- A garden is a private world or it is nothing.
- September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be drawn…
- To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out…
- Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey -…