John Evelyn
John Evelyn
John Evelyn, FRSwas an English writer, gardener and diarist...
friendship golden hearts thread ties
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.
blood destroyed drew infinite land large struck taken thames whale
A large whale was taken betwixt my land abutting on the Thames and Greenwich, which drew an infinite concourse to see it, by water, horse, coach, and on foot, from London, and all parts. ... It would have destroyed all the boats, but ... after a long conflict, it was killed with a harping iron, struck in the head, out of which spouted blood and water.
Explore everything; keep the best
men garden perfection
As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep it, so nor will our Gardens remain long in their perfection unless they are also continually cultivated.
confused men roots
I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.
death flower blessed
Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes, that there are none more fit to bury our dead in than in our Gardens and Groves, where our Beds may be decked with verdant and fragrant flowers, Trees and Perennial Plants, the most natural and instructive Hieroglyphics of our expected Resurrection and Immortality.
food nuts earth
Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.
knights romance gentleman
This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.
cheating garden quality
Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.
quality tribes foundation
By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.
flower men roots
We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory.
nuts delicacy able
Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
play age saws
I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.
time work years
The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits...