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A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felici

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. – Charles Lamb, 1830

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Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. – Henry David Thoreau

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Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden…. It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks

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Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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