Nan Fairbrother Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
1913 – 1971.

Nancy Fairbrother (1913–1971) was an English writer and lecturer on landscape and land use. She was a Member of the UK Institute of Landscape Architects, now the Landscape Institute. Her brother (James Alick (Rex) Fairbrother) was also a landscape architect.

Also known as Lecturer

Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.

Nan Fairbrother
- Way
- Ignore
- Obsession
happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

Nan Fairbrother
- Food
- Poetry
- Happiness

children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.

Nan Fairbrother
- Children
- Hand
- Confident
If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

Nan Fairbrother
- Life
- Happy
- Garden