55 Quotes by Alfred Austin

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf.

So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.