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Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.
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 more one gardens, the more one learns And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
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It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.
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I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
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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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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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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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