Samuel Johnson Quotes About Gardens

• A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

  Samuel Johnson

  Animal, Garden, Cows

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.172

• The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.

  Samuel Johnson

  Flower, Garden, Shade

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Correct Edition of Isaac Reed ... with Copious Annotations”, p.53

• The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens... The phantoms which haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger; the evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain, and how little he can perform.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Garden, Views

  Samuel Johnson (1824). “Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.255

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