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“When your garden is finished I hope it will be more beautiful that you anticipated, require less care than you expected, and have cost only a little more than you had planned.”

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Thomas Church

Thomas Church, an American landscape architect, was born on April 27, 1902, and passed away on August 30, 1978. Known for his unique design philosophy and contributions to modern landscape architecture, Church's work has had a profound impact on the field. more

“There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.”

“A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.”

Should Self States Time Change Journey Adventure Essentials Garden Constant Critical Experiments Owners Gardening Expansion Fluid Inquisitive

Author:H. E. Bates

“He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.”

Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.”

Work Like You Essentials Garden Gardening Beans Stalking Builder Like Yourself

Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

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