Books Quote by Mirabel Osler

“A book is a garden, only its flowers are ideas.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

“Books are essential nourishment to the mind.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

“Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a…

— James Allen

... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing…

— Nan Fairbrother

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”

— Jessica Brockmole

“I learned from the age of two or three, that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read…

— Eudora Welty

“For a garden is a mistress, and gardening is a blend of all the arts, and if it is not the death of me,…

— Beverley Nichols

“Gardens by their very nature are fragile beings that live in the two dimensions of time and care.”

— Joe Eck

One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that can always…

— Edward Augustus Bowles

“Plant gardens in your exile, work for the good of the city, and don't be so caught up in the "not yet" of the…

— Sarah Bessey

For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum of horticultural…

— Philip Gambone