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"To these delights of a garden, age may add a
further interest which can hardly be distinguished from beauty, for the mind, at least
with those who have the historic instinct, is always longing to be connected with the
past, and dreading for itself confinement upon the plane of time, delights in evidences of
the long continuance of nations, families and institutions, in hale and vigorous old age,
in long-settled peace beyond the turn of Fortune's wheel, the 'scornful dominion of
accident.' Restfulness is the prevailing note of an old garden; in this fairy world
of echo and suggestion where the Present Age never comes but to commune with the Past, we
feel the glamour of a Golden Age, of a state of society just and secure which has grown
and blossomed as the rose."
- Sir George Sitwell, On the Making of Gardens, 1909
- Sir George Sitwell, On the Making of Gardens, 1909
"Only the ephemeral is of lasting
value."
- Ionesco
- Ionesco
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