Contemplation Quote by John Evelyn

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

— John Evelyn

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

— 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 to keep…

— John Evelyn

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

— 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, and then…

— 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