Quotes by Alfred Austin

• Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
• Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
• Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
• 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.
• There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
• Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.