As AG reaches its 140th birthday, there are three quotes that I would like to share with you. One is philosophical, one is and one is humorous!
Philosophical: “The Earth laughs in flowers”
(Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher and poet, 1803-82)
(Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher and poet, 1803-82)
Emerson died just two years before this magazine was born, but despite living on the other side of the Atlantic, he knew plants and how people grew them. He was a student of nature and was a fervent supporter of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris (the main Botanical Garden in France). I take his quote to mean that blooms, with their many colours, their vibrancy and their fragrance, are Nature’s way of saying that things are good.
