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Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.
Vita Sackville-West
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Vita Sackville-West
Age: 70 †
Born: 1892
Born: March 9
Died: 1962
Died: June 2
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The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.
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A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.
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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
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I miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
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Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
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But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.
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I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
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Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
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Summer makes a silence after spring.
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Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
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Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.
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The more one gardens, the more one learns And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
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Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.
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I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.
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I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.
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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...
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It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten the mood is gone life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.
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