Alfred Austin

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.