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“They build too low who build beneath the skies.”

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Edward Young, a renowned English poet, was born on July 3, 1683, and died on April 5, 1765. His poetry, characterized by profound philosophical insights and a unique style, has had a lasting impact on literature. more

“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”

“I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.”

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Author:Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

“For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.”

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Author:Thomas E. Mann

“Friends are like money, easier made than kept.”

Made Friendship Easier

Book:Samuel Butler's notebooks

Source: Samuel Butler's notebooks

“Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.”

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Book:The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.”

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Author:Thomas Moore

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