Sixteenth Century Quote of the Week

"God Almighty first planted a garden; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures."

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

English philosopher, statesman, and scientist

"On Gardens" in The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, by Francis ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625)

Sixteenth Century Quote of the Week

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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, statesman, and scientist

The Advancement of Learning (1605), bk II, vii, 5.