garden - quotes

Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980

was a French author and existentialist philosopher

Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city, and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift... that's nausea.

Joseph Addison, 1672-1719

was an English essayist, poet, and politician

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

( “The Spectator” )