“ The good mother Nature, when she gave many 
artes unto men, she made a difference also between 
their wittes and dispositions, that every one shoulde 
folio we that whereunto he was most enclyned.” 
— Petrarch. 
“ If delight may provoke men’s labour, what 
greater delight is there than to behold the earth as 
apparelled with plants, as with a robe of imbroid- 
ered worke, set with orient pearles, and garnished 
with great diversitie of rare and costly jewels ? . . 
The delight is great but the use greater, and joyned 
often with necessities 
— John Gerarde . 
