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"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."
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"It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again."
"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
"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."
"I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden."
"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it."
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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."
"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."
"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."
"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."
"I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand."
"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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