Quote#Friendship
A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one's…
Quote byAlfred Austin · 1835–1913
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Garden That I Love (1894), p. 112..
English (original)
A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one's personal history and that of one's friends, interwoven with one's tastes, preferences, and character, and constitutes a sort of unwritten, but withal manifest autobiography. Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like.
— Alfred Austin
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