Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.... She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have We not made the earth as a cradle and the mountains as pegs?... And We created you in pairs, and We appointed your sleep for a rest; and We appointed night for a garment, and We appointed day for a livelihood. And We have built above you seven strong ones, and We appointed a blazing lamp and have sent down out of the rain-clouds water cascading that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, and gardens luxuriant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can ste...p out of a railway station--the Gare D'Orsay--and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees--nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today. That we may look at them, in their gardens where... The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly. Even the leaves fall down in lovelier patterns here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These are the Gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful,... And fresh as the young earth, ere man had sinned--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mrs. Mirvan says we are not to walk in [St. James's] Park again next Sunday ... because there is better company in Kensington Gard...ens; but really, if you had seen how every body was dressed, you would not think that possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Caracal lies on a shelf in its den in the Zoological Gardens quietly licking its fur. I go up and stand near it. It makes a fa...ce at me. I come a little nearer, it makes a worse face and raises itself up on its haunches. I stand and look. It jumps down from its shelf and makes as if it intended "going for" me. I move back; the Caracal has exerted a moral influence over me which I have been unable to resist. Moral influence means persuading another that one can make that other more uncomfortable than that other can make oneself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or th...e quality of his despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »