Quote#Beauty
Paint upon a palette, delighting our eyes with soul-satisfying…
Quote byGertrude Jekyll · 1843–1932
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Colour in the Garden (1908).
English (original)
Paint upon a palette, delighting our eyes with soul-satisfying pictures, a treasure of well set jewels a sympathy with growing things, fashioned into a dream of beauty, a place of perfect rest and refreshment of mind and body. This sense of beauty is a gift of God.
— Gertrude Jekyll
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