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Alfred Austin quotes: 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.

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.

Alfred Austin quotes: Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Alfred Austin quotes: When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.

When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.

Alfred Austin quotes: Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

Alfred Austin quotes: Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

Alfred Austin quotes: Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke.

Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke.

Alfred Austin quotes: Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.

Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.

Alfred Austin quotes: If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.

If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.

Alfred Austin quotes: We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.

We come from the earth, we return to the earth,
and in between we garden.

Alfred Austin quotes: Pale January layIn its cradle day by dayDead or living, hard to say.

Pale January lay
In its cradle day by day
Dead or living, hard to say.

Alfred Austin quotes: He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.

He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.

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

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

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

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

Alfred Austin quotes: Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.

Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.

Alfred Austin quotes: Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!

Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!

Alfred Austin quotes: From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf.

From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf.

Alfred Austin quotes: No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

Alfred Austin quotes: The bright incarnate spirit of the Morn.

The bright incarnate spirit of the Morn.

Alfred Austin quotes: We are all alike, and we love to keep passion aglow at our feet, Like one that sitteth in shade and complacently smiles at the heat.

We are all alike, and we love to keep passion aglow at our feet, Like one that sitteth in shade and complacently smiles at the heat.

Alfred Austin quotes: Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Alfred Austin quotes: Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.

Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.

Alfred Austin quotes: My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.

My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.

Alfred Austin quotes: Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

Alfred Austin quotes: In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.

In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.

Alfred Austin quotes: Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here;

Is life worth living? Yes, so long
As Spring revives the year,
And hails us with the cuckoo's song,
To show that she is here;

Alfred Austin quotes: No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.

No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.

Alfred Austin quotes: In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.

In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.