Quotable Gardener

By: Charles Elliott

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Paperback | 17 March 2005

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This delightful collection of wisdom, insight and humour, from Diane Ackerman to Emile Zola, captures the essence of the world's most popular hobby. Here are over four hundred quotations - not only one-line zingers but stanzas of verse and full paragraphs of narrative - on the endless fascination of gardening. The great gardening writers of past and present are amply represented, but these varied selections also range the entirety of recorded literature, from the Bible and the tenth-century Japanese diarist Sei Shonagon through Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Walt Whitman, and even Prince Charles. For anyone who counts their hours in the soil as their most valued, The Quotable Gardener is the ideal gift - an invaluable inspiration during the gardening months, and a treasured companion during the long, desperate winter.

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"The tulips are too excitable." - Sylvia Plath; "Against the uniform sheet of snow and the grayish winter sky the Italian villa loomed up rather grimly; even in summer it kept its distance, and the boldest coleus bed had never ventured nearer than thirty feet from its awful front." - Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920); "My garden will never make me famous. I'm a horticultural ignoramus." - Ogden Nash (1902-1971); "Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You' in spats." - Woody Allen

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Non-Fiction Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Encyclopaedias & Reference Works Reference Works Dictionaries of Quotations Gardening Specialised Gardening Methods

Introduction	p. ix
Wisdom	p. 1
Work	p. 29
Plantings	p. 49
Design	p. 81
Branch and Blade	p. 101
Observations	p. 121
Jaundice	p. 149
Seasons	p. 171
Enthusiasm	p. 183
Edible and Inedible	p. 199
Consolations	p. 215
A Who's Who of Those Quoted	p. 225
Index of Those Quoted	p. 263
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