"Climate helps to shape the character of peoples,……" — H E Bates
"Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make the English, a long-suffering, phlegmatic, patient people rather insensitive to surprise, stoical against storms,. slightly incredulous at every appearance of the sun, touched by the lyrical gratitude of someone who expects nothing and suddenly receives more than he dreamed."
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H E Bates
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Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.
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The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.
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The garden that is finished is dead.
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In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl.
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