Quotable tuesday
I have mixed feelings about gardens on the grand scale. I can’t help admiring the effort, the optimism, the investment, the skill of the pépiniériste and the end results, which are often superb. … But would I want a garden like that, with its constant need to be nourished by a mulch of 500-franc notes? I don’t think so. It would be a full-time job and an endless responsibility trying to keep nature under control, and I know that nature would win; she has more stamina than I do, and never stops for lunch.
- Peter Mayle from Encore Provence
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