John Evelyn

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience,…

— John Evelyn

We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy…

— John Evelyn

Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for…

— John Evelyn

This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.

— John Evelyn

Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.

— John Evelyn

I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.

— John Evelyn

Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.

— John Evelyn

As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and…

— John Evelyn

I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of…

— John Evelyn

Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.

— John Evelyn

The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground,…

— John Evelyn

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

— John Evelyn

A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.

— John Evelyn

“This day came in his Majestie Charles the 2d to London after a sad, & long Exile, and Calamitous Suffering both of…

— John Evelyn

Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.

— John Evelyn

The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and…

— John Evelyn

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

— John Evelyn

By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which…

— John Evelyn

Explore everything; keep the best

— John Evelyn