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“I'm tired, it's raining, and I am not a waterlily.”

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Russell Page, a renowned British garden designer, was born in London in 1906 and passed away in 1985. He is known for his unique style of garden design and profound understanding of the natural environment. Page's garden design works are spread across the globe, including the UK, the United States, and France, and his design philosophy has had a profound impact on modern garden art. more

“When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.”

Years White Blood Sweet Kings Spring Bird Red Winter Edges Teeth Pale Dishes Peers Reign Sheets Ale Daffodil Bleaching Doxies

Author:William Shakespeare

“It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass, In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding; Sweet lovers love the spring.”

Fields Sweet Lovers Spring Bird Green Rings Hey Corn You Like It Sweet Love Spring Time Lovers Love

Author:William Shakespeare

“O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?”

Strong Rocks Health Summer Breaths Gates Honey Decay Steel Siege Stout Battering

Author:William Shakespeare

“Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.”

Men Winter Beast Men Women

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English

“Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.”

Sometimes Care Joy Cold Succeed Summer Seasons Winter Clouds Barren Evermore Winter Days Summer And Winter

Book:The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III

Source: The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III

“Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.”

Feels Body Differences Wind Cold Seasons Winter Blow Bites Adam Penalties Shrinks You Like It Fangs I Smile Icy

Author:William Shakespeare

“What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!”

Felt Dark Winter Absence December Freezing Dark Days Your Absence

Author:William Shakespeare

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