Often I hear people say, "How
do you make your plants flourish like this?"........."What
is your secret?" And I answer with one word, "Love".
----Celia Thaxter, An Island
Garden, 1895
Pretty Polly
June 3, 2008
"In his garden every man
may be his own artist without apology or explanation."
----Louise Beebe
Wilder
Pretty Polly
May 29, 2007
"All gardening is landscape-painting."
---Alexander Pope
Pretty Polly
May 28, 2007
"In all things of nature
there is something of the marvelous."
----Aristotle
Pretty Polly
May 10, 2007
"I perhaps owe having become
a painter to flowers."
----Claude Monet
Polly
May 10, 2007
"The virtue of the camera
is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an
artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking."
-----Brooks Anderson
May 10, 2007
"The artist is the confidant of
nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful
bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of
their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs
towards him."----Auguste Rodin
Pretty Polly
May 3, 2007
"As I work among my flowers,
I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with
them, and adoring them as if they were human beings."
----Celia Thaxter
