Gertrude Jekyll Quotes

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.

The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.

June is bustin' out all over.

His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise.

But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you.

Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.

Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart.

Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction.

What is capable of restoring enthusiasm and confidence, what can encourage the human spirit to rediscover its path, to raise its eyes to the horizon, to dream of a life worthy of its vocation - if not beauty?

I think you have to earn beauty. You can use it or abuse it however you want when you're young. It's a God-given gift. You have a visiting card - you can go into any room and someone will come and talk to you. But I've always thought from very early on that you have to be careful with that - not being vain or narcissistic. Have fun, but don't be obsessed with it.

The opening and the folding flowers, that laugh to the summer's day.

I wouldn't want to be 20 now. I know so much more, and I'm much more comfortable in my skin, saggy as it is When I hear young girls complaining about superficial things You're at the peak of your physical beauty right now! Just enjoy it and stop worrying about your thighs being too big If you're upset with how you look at 25, life's going to be tough