Harry Byrd

“Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food;”
― Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse

“A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.


Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna”
― Rumer Godden

“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.”
― Sir Thomas More

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables