Louise Wilder famous quotes

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.
-- Louise Wilder

#Apology #Artist #Men

In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator, and no two shall reach the same conclusion; nor shall we, any more than other creative workers, be ever wholly satisfied with our accomplishment. Ever a season ahead of us floats the vision of perfection and herein lies its perennial charm.
-- Louise Wilder

#Lying #Apology #Men

In one's garden a person may be one's own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the romance of possibility.
-- Louise Wilder

#Apology #Garden #Artist

He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.
-- Louise Wilder

#Simplicity #Aptitude #Idleness

A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal.
-- Louise Wilder

#Sweet #Power #Garden

The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.
-- Louise Wilder

#Garden #Smell #Patterns

Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration... in the very teeth of winter.
-- Louise Wilder

#Winter #Teeth #Celebration

While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit.
-- Louise Wilder

#Littles #Orbit #World

To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.
-- Louise Wilder

#Garden #Rocks #Landscape

Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counter proof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.

(Asked by John King about the political climate that existed in Washington at the time, and criticism of the Department of Justice under his management) Listen I don't expect an apology from men like Chuck Schumer, and I would put him and other individuals who were attacking me at the top of the list contributing to the low, low public perception of Congress, the integrity of Congress quite frankly.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.