John Evelyn Quotes

#1. We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory. - Author: John Evelyn

#2. This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself. - Author: John Evelyn

#3. I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age. - Author: John Evelyn

#4. Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at. - Author: John Evelyn

#5. Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity. - Author: John Evelyn

#6. The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits ... - Author: John Evelyn

#7. Here we supped ... , having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it. - Author: John Evelyn

#8. As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep it, so nor will our Gardens remain long in their perfection unless they are also continually cultivated. - Author: John Evelyn

#9. I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots. - Author: John Evelyn

#10. By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties ... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity. - Author: John Evelyn

#11. Explore everything; keep the best - Author: John Evelyn

#12. Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. - Author: John Evelyn

#13. Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned. - Author: John Evelyn

#14. A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next. - Author: John Evelyn