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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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