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Alexander Smith

"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."

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"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."

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"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."

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"It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again."

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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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"Gardening is not a rational act."

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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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"Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?"

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"In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world."

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"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."

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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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"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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"Trees are your best antiques."
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"A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity."
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"Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life."
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"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."
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"The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn."
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"I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory."
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"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."
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"A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road."
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"If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste."
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"If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death."
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