Francis Bacon Quotes About Gardens

Quotes about: Gardens

• Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Francis Bacon “The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature”, Library of Alexandria

• There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

  Francis Bacon

  Spring, Fall, Autumn

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.105, Jazzybee Verlag

• Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

  Francis Bacon

  Garden, Essentials, Pleasure

• God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Garden, Perfection

  Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral & the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon: Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton, Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

• The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

  Francis Bacon

  Flower, Men, Garden

  Novum Organum 'Aphorisms'

• As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

  Francis Bacon

  Running, Weed, Nature

• For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

  Francis Bacon

  Rain, Garden, Rivers

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.107, Jazzybee Verlag

• God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Garden, Firsts

  Essays "Of Gardens" (1625)

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