“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”
Michael Pollan (1955) American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism
“We look for romance in the well-cultivated garden-plots, and when it springs out of virgin soil we are surprised, though any fool might know it was the natural place for it.”
— John Buchan, book The Path of the King
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The Path of the King (1921)
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