Dorothy Wordsworth Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: December 25, 1771 - January 25, 1855
Birthday: December 25
Death: January 25
The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest.
source: Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth (2007). “Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.258, Penguin UK
topic: Retirement, Growing, Female, Columbine
