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> [A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-fairbrother/a-collection-of-plants-is-not-a-landscape-any-more-than-a-list-of/)

[Nan Fairbrother](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nan-fairbrother/)

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## Other authors on Best design

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## More by Nan Fairbrother

> [Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-fairbrother/most-of-us-are-experts-at-solving-other-people-s-problems-but-we/)

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> [the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-fairbrother/the-large-black-slugs-come-out-at-dusk-enormous-slugs-as-big-as/)

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> [Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-fairbrother/summer-weather-like-being-in-love-is-a-philosopher-s-stone-which/)

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> [children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-fairbrother/children-are-not-undeveloped-versions-of-adult-people-they-are-a/)

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> [The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-fairbrother/the-sorrows-of-children-are-profound-and-unsuspected/)

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> [the urgent crowds out the essential.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-fairbrother/the-urgent-crowds-out-the-essential/)

[Nan Fairbrother](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nan-fairbrother/)

> [leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-fairbrother/leisure-is-an-attitude-of-mind-not-simply-remission-of-work/)

[Nan Fairbrother](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nan-fairbrother/)

> [... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-fairbrother/garden-books-are-quite-unconscious-that-besides-telling-us-how-to/)

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> [We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-fairbrother/we-envy-people-we-love-for-being-always-in-their-own-loved-company/)

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> [It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-fairbrother/it-is-always-one-of-the-tragedies-of-any-relationship-even-between/)

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> [As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-fairbrother/as-every-real-estate-agent-knows-a-poor-house-in-good-surroundings/)

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> [I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-fairbrother/i-have-reached-the-stage-now-where-luxury-is-not-in-fine-possessions/)

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> [We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-fairbrother/we-are-perverse-creatures-and-never-satisfied/)

[Nan Fairbrother](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nan-fairbrother/)

> [We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-fairbrother/we-love-those-we-are-happy-with-we-do-for-how-else-can-we-know-we/)

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> [There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nan-fairbrother/there-is-a-stage-with-people-we-love-when-we-are-no-longer-separate/)

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