~ 1835 - 1913
Alfred Austin was a British poet and writer who served as the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1896 until 1913. He is best known for his numerous lyrical and narrative poems, as well as his works on spiritual and moral themes.
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.