Allotments

When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

(Unknown)

I look upon the pleasures we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

(Cicero)

Essaouira

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not".

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth".

(John Lubbock)

Essaouira

"I should like to spend the whole of my life travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home".

(William Hazlett)

"An ordinary talent will always be ordinary whether he travels or not; but man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains in the same place".

(Mozart)

Essaouira

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime".

(Mark Twain)

"Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world".

(Gustave Flaubert)

Essaouira

"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

(Samuel Johnson)

"To awaken quiet alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."

(Freya Stark)

Essaouira

The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he wants to see.

(Gilbert K Chesterton)

Now more than ever do I realise that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun drenched elsewhere.

(Isabelle Eberhardt)

Versailles

"You would do well during your stay in Paris to visit Versailles"

(Father Claude de Varennes. 1639)

The garden must be in harmony with the conformation of the land, that is, in accord with the situation whether it is in the mountains, on the seashore or in the desert such as the American southwest.

(Alexander leBlond on the gardening rules of Le Notre)

Paris

Building art is a synthesis of life in a materialised form.

(Alvar Aalto)

I don't divide architecture, landscape, and gardening; to me they are all one.

(luis Barragan)