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

- Alfred Austin

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

- Alfred Austin

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

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

- Alfred Austin

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

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

- Alfred Austin