"Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen,
Delightful industry enjoy'd at home,
And Nature, in her cultivated trim
Dress'ed to his taste, inviting him abroad -
Can he want occupation who has these?"
~ William Cowper, The Task, 1780
“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.”
~ H. E. Bates
“The gardener's rule applies to youth and age:
When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.”
~ H.J. Byron
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