Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better… — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine… — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
“Their (the Greeks)encounters with foreign were not coloured by the belief that such people's religion was false and inferior, the belief that thinges Christians,… — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
“Excavations at Ai Khanoum on the northern border of modern Afghanistan have produced great quantities of Greek inscriptions and even the remnants of a… — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians. — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour. — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give… — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
“I wish I was here, or I wish I was there...' In our age of global travel we are all potential heirs to the… — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
