John Evelyn famous quotes

03-23-2025

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
-- John Evelyn

#Friendship #Real #Heart
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.
-- John Evelyn

#Educational #Gardening #Satisfaction
A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.
-- John Evelyn

#Years #Next #Ends
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 he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits...
-- John Evelyn

#Time #Work #Years
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 it, so nor will our Gardens remain long in their perfection unless they are also continually cultivated.
-- John Evelyn

#Men #Garden #Long
I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.
-- John Evelyn

#Confused #Men #Roots
By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.
-- John Evelyn

#Quality #Foundation #Tribes
We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory.
-- John Evelyn

#Flower #Men #Roots
I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.
-- John Evelyn

#Play #Age #Saws
Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.
-- John Evelyn

#Food #Nuts #Earth
Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
-- John Evelyn

#Nuts #Delicacy #Able
The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire habit of their bodies; so the Catarrhs,...Cough, and Consumption, range more in this one City, than in the whole Earth besides.
-- John Evelyn

#Dark #Clouds #Cities
Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.
-- John Evelyn

#Cheating #Garden #Quality
This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.
-- John Evelyn

#Knights #Romance #Gentleman
Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes, that there are none more fit to bury our dead in than in our Gardens and Groves, where our Beds may be decked with verdant and fragrant flowers, Trees and Perennial Plants, the most natural and instructive Hieroglyphics of our expected Resurrection and Immortality.
-- John Evelyn

#Death #Flower #Blessed
Explore everything; keep the best
-- John Evelyn

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