“My heart was now a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
William Goldman book The Princess Bride
Variant: Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
Source: The Princess Bride
“The idea that paradise, the proper habitat of a human being, is a walled garden – is a good one. It's an echo back to the chaos/order idea. Walls: culture. Garden: nature. The proper human habitat is a properly tended garden.”
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifi5KkXig3s "Biblical Series IV: Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death"
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“Democracy is a garden that has to be tended.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
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