Quotes from Tablets — Amos Bronson Alcott
1799–1888 United States
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps;
Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
Tablets (1868)
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
Tablets (1868)
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly; books and colleges at second-hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon, of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars: actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as these rise and fall.
Tablets (1868)