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“A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.”

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William Kent
William Kent

William Kent, born in 1685 and died on April 12, 1748, was a prominent British landscape architect. He is considered one of the pioneers of English landscape design and had a profound impact on the field. more

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