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Quote by Frank Swinnerton
When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved. – Frank Swinnerton

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Laying out grounds… may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting…. it is to assist Nature in moving the affections… the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature… – William Wordsworth, letter to George Beaumont, 1805 October 17th [Author trivia:

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I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day. – F. Frankfort Moore, A Garden of Peace

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An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up. – Leslie Hall

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