Famous Quotes | A garden is like those...

A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of, every month, in the newspapers, which catch a man’s coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg, and his whole body to irresistible destruction. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Wealth,” The Conduct of Life (1860).

Categories: Essayist, Gardens And Gardening, Philosopher

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