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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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"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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"That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back."

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"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."

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"We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?"

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"Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'"

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