"A gardener is never shut out from his……" — Beverley Nichols
"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 grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes."
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19 Quotes by Beverley Nichols
Beverley Nichols has 19 quotes on this site.
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Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome…
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To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
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Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the…
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It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.
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Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or…
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We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
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A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.
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The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a…
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I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly…
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To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
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Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of…
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As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her…
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