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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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In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. – Sam Llewelyn

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Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another. – Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces, 1977

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I doe hold it, in the Royall ordering of Gardens, there ought to be Gardens, for all the Moneths in the Yeare: In which, severally Things of Beautie, may in then in Season. – Francis Bacon

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The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. – Hanna Rion

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