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"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."
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"We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?"
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"Gardening is not a rational act."
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"It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again."
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"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
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"The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him."
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"If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains."
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"A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on."
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"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."
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"I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes."
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"Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden."
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"The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history."
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"I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology."
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"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."
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"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."
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"We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors."
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"I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand."
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"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."
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"Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops."
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"It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined."
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"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."
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