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William Kent

"Garden as though you will live forever."

William Kent, English Architect
Gardening, Garden, Will
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"The devout have laid out gardens in the desert."

Robert Duncan, American Poet
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"I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head."

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

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

David Hobson, American Politician
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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."

David Hockney, English Artist
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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.'"

Susannah York, British Actress
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"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."

George Ball, American Politician
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"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."

Gertrude Jekyll, British Celebrity
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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."

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet
Gardening, Garden, Law, Public, World
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"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."

Marcelene Cox, American Columnist
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