WIST Quotations

Cox, Marcelene -- “Ask Any Woman” column, Ladies’ Home Journal (1944-09)

Dave — Tue, 30 May 2023 16:56:50 +0000

Weather means more when you have a garden. There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it’s soaking in around your green beans.

Marcelene Cox (1900-1998) American writer, columnist, aphorist
“Ask Any Woman” column, Ladies’ Home Journal (1944-09)
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Sarton, May -- Journal of a Solitude (1973)

Dave — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:10:31 +0000

So everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

May Sarton (1912-1995) Belgian-American poet, novelist, memoirist [pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton]
Journal of a Solitude (1973)
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Sarton, May -- At Seventy: A Journal, “Wednesday, June 23rd” (1973)

Dave — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 17:48:18 +0000

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

May Sarton (1912-1995) Belgian-American poet, novelist, memoirist [pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton]
At Seventy: A Journal, “Wednesday, June 23rd” (1973)
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Austin, Alfred -- The Garden That I Love, “April 30th” (1894)

Dave — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 21:32:14 +0000

For there is no gardening without humility, an assiduous willingness to learn, and a cheerful readiness to confess you were mistaken. Nature is continually sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. But, by the due exercise of patience and diligence, they may work their way to the top again.

Alfred Austin (1835-1913) English poet, UK Poet Laureate (1896-1913)
The Garden That I Love, “April 30th” (1894)
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- “Man the Reformer,” lecture, Boston (1841-01-25)

Dave — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:57:38 +0000

When I go into my garden with a spade and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health, that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
“Man the Reformer,” lecture, Boston (1841-01-25)
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Brown, H. Jackson "Jack" -- Life’s Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness (2001)

Dave — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 02:25:55 +0000

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

H. Jackson "Jack" Brown, Jr. (b. 1940) American writer
Life’s Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness (2001)