Hedgerows quotes

Hedgerows

2 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

"It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up to the rails or wall which he himself has placed, and hence it often becomes a hedgerow and sometimes a coppice."

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