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Robert Fortune

"The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens."

Source : Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.141

Robert Fortune

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“I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.”
“Approval isnâ€™t necessary. Itâ€™s nice when you get it, but itâ€™s not going to stop us from being who we are. I mean, if Iâ€™d have listened to approval, Iâ€™d never have made it one day onstage. But to be criticized, if thereâ€™s validity, as upset as you are, you can learn from it.”
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“Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish.”
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“It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.”
“I like starting. It's pretty cool.”

"The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens."

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