I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson