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To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
Beverley Nichols
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Beverley Nichols
Age: 85 †
Born: 1898
Born: September 9
Died: 1983
Died: September 15
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Horticulturist
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
John Beverley Nichols
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A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.
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