Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin DL (30 May 1835 – 2 June 1913) was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 upon the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

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Alfred Austin

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

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Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

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Alfred Austin

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

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Alfred Austin