Quotes by Alfred Austin

Across the wires the electric message came: He is no better, he is much the same.
– Alfred Austin
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
– Alfred Austin
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
– Alfred Austin
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
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