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The Garden is a Love Song
by Jeff Cox A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature. -Jeff Cox, American garden writer As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. The Garden is a Love Song Related posts: After Apple Picking…
Buy Hyacinths to Feed Thy Soul
by Saadi If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft, And of thy meager store, Two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one, and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul. – Saadi, Persian Sufi poet, in Gulistan (The Rose Garden), 1258 Notes: If you plant spring bulbs, I…
November is Usually Such a Disagreeable Month
by Lucy Maud Montgomery November is usually such a disagreeable month… as if the year had suddenly found out that she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it. This year is growing old gracefully… just like a stately old lady who knows she can be charming even with gray…
The Sun
by Galileo Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, mathematician, and philosopher The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest,…
The First Day of Spring is One Thing
by Henry Van Dyke The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. -Henry Van Dyke, American author, and clergyman Notes: November 10, 1852 Today is the birthday of the American author and…
Use What Talents You Possess
by Henry Van Dyke Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there, except those that sang best. -Henry Van Dyke, American author and clergyman Notes: November 10, 1852 Today is the birthday of the American author and clergyman Henry Van Dyke. Henry gave…
Oh, London is a Man’s Town
by Henry Van Dyke Oh, London is a man’s town; there’s power in the air; And Paris is a woman’s town, with flowers in her hair. -Henry Van Dyke, American author and clergyman Notes: November 10, 1852 Today is the birthday of the American author and clergyman Henry Van Dyke.…
Nothing Grows in our Garden
by Dylan Thomas Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies. Notes: The Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas, died on this day in 1953 at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. He had consumed 18 straight martinis. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the…
A Garden That You Make Yourself
by Alfred Austin A garden that you make yourself becomes associated with your personal history and that of your friends, interwoven with your tastes, preferences, and character, and constitutes a sort of unwritten, but withal manifest, autobiography. Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like. …
I Have Come to Regard November
by Henry Rollins I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter tightens its grip. As featured…
Autumn Valentine
by Dorothy Parker In May, my heart was breaking- Oh, wide the wound, and deep! And bitter it beat at waking, And sore it split in sleep. And when it came November, I sought my heart and sighed, “Poor thing, do you remember?” “What heart was that?” it cried. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast:…
November Folklore
Today’s Unearthed Words are a collection of folklore and sayings about November. Thunder in November, a fertile year to come. A heavy November snow will last till April. Flowers in bloom late in autumn indicate a bad winter. If there’s ice in November that will bear a duck, There’ll be nothing after but sludge and…
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