Life: 1879 - 1942
Birthday: 1879
Death: 1942
... if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. .... Always, the soil must come first.
Topics: Happiness, Garden, Allies
It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day.
Topics: Garden, Doors, Essentials
I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate ceaselessly with a loud voice that she did not permit the town to sap all the years away while the heart was turning to wind-voices and flower-faces and the hands of kindly earth.
Topics: Flower, Heart, Fate, Loud Voices
So many of our lessons are learned, it would seem, too late to use on Earth.
Topics: Learning, Too Late, Use
Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still. There is no escape. I love her utterly through all time and times. All over the world towns to me are prison; green fields are home.
Topics: Nature, Home, Green Fields