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"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."
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"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."


"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."


"You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter."


"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."


"I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand."


"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."


"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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