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Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--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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Knole House
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Lady Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
Lady Nicolson
Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.
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Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.
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April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.
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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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The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.
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Tools have their own integrity.
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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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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?
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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I like muddling things up and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.
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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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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 cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
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all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.
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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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See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.
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