Francis Cabot quotes
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“Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?”
-- Francis Cabot
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“I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.”
Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”
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“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”
Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72
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“Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!”
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