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Gilbert White

"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."

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"My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public."

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"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."

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"These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes."

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"I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it."

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"Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade."

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"Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate."

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"Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden."

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"Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama."

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"I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles."

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"As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit."

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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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"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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"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."
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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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"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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