“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”
"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."
- Gertrude Jekyll
Love
"There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming summer."
- Gertrude Jekyll
Hope
"What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will never fade."
- Gertrude Jekyll
Hope
"There is always in February someday, at least once, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming summers."
- Gertrude Jekyll
Hope
"There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer."
- Gertrude Jekyll
Hope
"Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home."
- Carol Nelson
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature
"The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood."
- Richard Paul Evans
Nature
"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature