Helena Rutherfurd Ely quotes

“I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.”
-- Helena Rutherfurd Ely

Source : Helena Rutherfurd Ely (1999). “A Woman's Hardy Garden”

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“The many varieties and wonderful colors of the modern dahlia make it a totally different flower from the one our grandmothers knew. The names are descriptive of the different varieties, and as there are so many of them, and they bloom from early in June or July until frost, a garden of dahlias might be very interesting.”
-- Helena Rutherfurd Ely

Source : Helena Rutherfurd Ely (1911). “The Practical Flower Garden”

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“The watering of a garden requires as much judgement as the seasoning of a soup.”
-- Helena Rutherfurd Ely

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“I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.”

“And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.”

“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”

“A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”

Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com

“Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.”

“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”

“I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.152

“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”

“Be kind to your garden and be gentle on your back!”