It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.
Beverley NicholsWell, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.
Beverley NicholsLife in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural things. It is more exciting to stand still than to dance. Silence is more eloquent than speech. Water is more stimulating than wine. Fresh air is more intoxicating than cigarette smoke. Sunlight is more subtle than electric light. The scent of grass is more luxurious than the most expensive perfume. The slow, simple observations of the peasant are more wise than the most sparkling epigrams of the latest wit.
Beverley NicholsWe both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
Beverley NicholsThe Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.
Beverley Nichols