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"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."
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"I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it."

"I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right."

"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."

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


"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."


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


"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."


"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."
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