Ocupation: Writer
Life: 1825 - 1890
Birthday: 1825
Death: 1890
Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a few hints, but we might as well abandon our spades and pitchforks as pretend that nature is everything and art nothing.
source: - James Shirley Hibberd (1871). “The amateur's flower garden”, p.223
Topics: Art, Garden, Warfare, Pitchforks