Quotes from John Evelyn

I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.

Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

And I beseech you, forget not to informe yourselfe as dilligently as may be, in things that belong to Gardening.

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.

The hardest bones of beef itself, and mutton, were made as soft as cheese Source: http://www.evs-translations.com/blog-com/pressure-cooker/

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.

Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.