Under Photo: a Garden Vita Sackville-West Designed. Up photo: Vita, et al at Ascot.
Quotes from Vita Sackville-West
“The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.”
“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.”
“The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.”
“Summer makes a silence after spring.”
"Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong."
“It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.”
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