Quotes about garden
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Anchee Min photo

“I cultivate my Chinese garden in the middle of an American town…I love China with all my heart and soul, although I feel fortunate to have escaped it.”

Anchee Min (1957) Chinese-American author

Source: On the way she pays homage to China in “Anchee Min: 'If I had stayed in China, I would be dead'” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10116718/Anchee-Min-If-I-had-stayed-in-China-I-would-be-dead.html in The Telegraph (2013 Jul 4)

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“Once learn how Nature gardens for herself, and you will be able to spare yourself a good deal of trouble.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: The Garden That I Love (1894), p. 22.

Alfred Austin photo

“[E]xclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: The Garden That I Love (1894), p. 117.

Alfred Austin photo
Alfred Austin photo
Alfred Austin photo

“No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: The Garden That I Love (1894), p. 112.

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“The garden of life never seems to confine itself to the plot philosophers have laid out for its convenience maybe a few more tractors would do the trick.”

Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American speculative fiction writer

Source: Short fiction, Home is the Hangman (1975), p. 149

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