"What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out. One small choice and then another, and soon there is a mood, an atmosphere, a series of limitations, a world."

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Source : Helen Humphreys (2003). “The Lost Garden: A Novel”, p.180, W. W. Norton & Company

Helen Humphreys

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