Alfred Austin - The Garden That I Love (1895)

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Nature is continually sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. But, by the due exercise of patience and diligence, they may work their way to the top again.

Alfred Austin

For there is no gardening without humility, an assiduous willingness to learn, and a cheerful readiness to confess you were mistaken.

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Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society...

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

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A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one's personal history and that of one's friends, interwoven with one's tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography.

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