Cottages Quote by Charles Spurgeon

“The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter.…

— William Lindsay Gresham

Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to…

— Alexandra David-Neel

“As Master Nathaniel jogged leisurely along his thoughts turned to the Farmer Gibberty, who many a time must have jogged along this path, in…

— Hope Mirrlees

“At the time no one really knew for sure that John Cropsey was more than the stuff of campfire stories. Not the townspeople, who…

— Stefan Dziemianowicz

“With the tip of his tongue, he outlined her ear. “ Topsannah, tani-har-ro. ” The words came out so slurred, she doubted he even…

— Catherine Anderson

“Sometimes he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for both these kinds of toil; he called…

— Victor Hugo

“And the English soul, if it resided anywhere, was surely in some unheroic back garden—a patch of lawn, a bed of roses, a row…

— Kate Atkinson

I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you…

— Martha Ronk

“Somewhere in the garden a nightingale was singing, and a little breeze touched her hair and stirred the leaves overhead. All the different bells…

— Philip Pullman

The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.

— Costa Georgiadis

A garden is not a picture, but a language.

— Henry Mitchell

Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle, and appropriated…

— Tom Turner