Louise Wilder quotes
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“In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.”
-- Louise WilderSource : Louise Beebe Wilder (1918). “Colour in My Garden”
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“In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator, and no two shall reach the same conclusion; nor shall we, any more than other creative workers, be ever wholly satisfied with our accomplishment. Ever a season ahead of us floats the vision of perfection and herein lies its perennial charm.”
-- Louise WilderSource : "Colour in My Garden".
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“In one's garden a person may be one's own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the romance of possibility.”
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“He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.”
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“A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal.”
-- Louise WilderSource : Louise Beebe Wilder (1990). “The fragrant path”, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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“The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.”
-- Louise WilderSource : Louise Beebe Wilder (1990). “The fragrant path”, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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“Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration... in the very teeth of winter.”
-- Louise WilderSource : Louise Beebe Wilder (1997). “What Happens in My Garden”, Hartley & Marks
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“While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit.”
-- Louise WilderSource : Louise Beebe Wilder (1997). “What Happens in My Garden”, Hartley & Marks
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“To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.”
-- Louise Wilder
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Source : Abraham Coles (1882). “The Evangel: Or The Life of Our Lord in Verse”
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“Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.”
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Source : Albert Pollard (2018). “Henry viii”, p.199, Ozymandias Press
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Source : "Boy of Age: Aaron Johnson". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2010.
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“My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.”
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Source : Source: www.independentphilly.com
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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