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“If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That's because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.”

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Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“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

“In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience of nature is bound to reflect a culture - ways of painting nature, for example, or representing nature in literature, or of course making gardens.”

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Author:David E. Cooper

“There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.”

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Author:D. H. Lawrence

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

“A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.”

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Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen

“I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.”

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Author:Jeanette Winterson

“...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.”

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Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.”

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Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.”

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Book:R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

Source: R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

“A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.”

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Author:Sherman Alexie