Logo
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my

Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden…. It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Gardens
category

Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Gardens

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. – Mrs. C.W. Earle, Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, 1897 (Thanks, Jessica)

Category:
Gardens

Bloom where you are planted. – Author Unknown

Category:
Gardens

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed. – Lewis Gannit

Category:
Gardens

Random Quotes

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. – James Baldwin

Category:
Exile

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. – Tony Snow

Category:
Trust

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, Im still a virgin in a lot of ways. Im not used to being shot down for no reason. – Will Smith

Category:
movies

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. – Johann von Goethe

Category:
Be Yourself