Quotes by Nan Fairbrother

Nan Fairbrother

… garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.

Book

Educational

Friendship

A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.

Choices

Design

Landscape

A garden is one of the few expressions of man’s nature that is altogether benign.

Appreciation

Gratitude

Nature

As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.

Beauty

Real

Views

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

Children

People

Race

children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.

Children

Hands

Trouble

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

Different

Enthusiasm

Soil

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

Momentum

Plot

Stories

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

Dream

Needs

Youth

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

Happiness

Luxury

Would Be

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Attitude

Beauty

Being In Love

Black

Book

Children

Choices

Company

Crowds

Design

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Division

Dream

Educational

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Enthusiasm

Envy

Essentials

Evil

Eye

Fighting

Friendly

Friendship

Garden

Giving

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Gun

Hair

Hands

Happiness

Home

Humans

Imagination

Inspirational

Knows

Landscape

Leisure

Loss

Love

Love Is

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Mankind

Mind

Momentum

Nature

Needs

Offers

People

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Quotes by Nan Fairbrother

Nan Fairbrother

… garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.

A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man’s nature that is altogether benign.

As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

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