The Sweet Life
Subtitle: Reflections on Home and Garden
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: May 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780811830140
Subjects: Gardening; Home & House Maintenance; Home; Gardening/Plants; Gardening / Horticulture; Quotations; General; Gardening / General; Essays; Gardens; Quotations, maxims, etc
First sentence: Then we have winding paths, to make butcher-boys giddy, and perplex the stranger ... and which compel the visitor to make half a tour of the grounds, when his chief object is to get inside the house, to take off his hat and gloves, and sit at the table punctual to a moment.