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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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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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A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body. – George Herbert

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Nothing is more completely the child of Art than a Garden. – Walter Scott

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Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. – Charles Wagner

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