"Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners."
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"Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting."
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"Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems."
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"And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain."
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"I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!"
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"so i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while."
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"So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out."
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"All my hurts my garden spade can heal."
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"Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens."
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"The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames."
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"The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside."
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"Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was to have one yourself. A moment's rational thought here will spot the slight flaw in this reasoning."
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"My Lolita remarked: "You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own"; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling's mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile cliches, there was in her a garden and a twilight, and a palace gate - dim and adorable regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted rags and miserable convulsions."
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"Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden."
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"Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free."
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"Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity."
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"I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company."
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"Flowers are my music."
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"When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size."
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"The snake stood up for evil in the Garden."
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