"When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable." Alice Morse Earle american settlement 👍0 👎0 Share ×Share this Quote Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Copy Link Copy
"We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs." Alice Morse Earle gardening 👍1 👎0 Share ×Share this Quote Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Copy Link Copy
"Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness." Alice Morse Earle gardening 👍1 👎0 Share ×Share this Quote Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Copy Link Copy
"Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content... Alice Morse Earle gardening 👍0 👎0 Share ×Share this Quote Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Copy Link Copy
"The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know -... Alice Morse Earle flowers 👍0 👎0 Share ×Share this Quote Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Copy Link Copy
"The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present." Alice Morse Earle time 👍0 👎0 Share ×Share this Quote Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Copy Link Copy
"Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends." Alice Morse Earle colonial life 👍0 👎0 Share ×Share this Quote Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Copy Link Copy
