The Quotable Gardener Author:Charles Elliott Here are over four hundred quotations--not only one-line zingers but stanzas of verse and full paragraphs of narrative--on the endless fascination of gardening. The great gardening writers of past and present are amply represented, but these varied selections also range the entirety of recorded literature, from the Bible and tenth-century Japane... more »se diarist Sei Sh-onagon through Chaucer and Shakespeare to Dickens, Whitman, and even Prince Charles, as well as Jane Austen, Geoffrey Charlesworth, Helena Rutherford Ely, Robert Frost, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ted Hughes, Henry James, Thomas Jefferson, and Gertrude Jekyll.« less