Katharine Sergeant Angell White Professions : Writer Born : September 17, 1892 Died : July 20, 1977 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Katharine Sergeant Angell White Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me. Katharine Sergeant Angell White united-states agreement home There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous animals in the world have talked, but they talked real talk and they weren't called silly names like Doody and Mooloo. They were called names like The Cheshire Cat and they asked sensible questions like "Did you say pig, or fig?") Katharine Sergeant Angell White real silly children From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens - the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind's eye. Katharine Sergeant Angell White garden eye winter As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom. Katharine Sergeant Angell White writing winter fall Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet! Katharine Sergeant Angell White baseball leadership baby Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink. Katharine Sergeant Angell White smell nature strong With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory. Katharine Sergeant Angell White soul book children Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
