Alfred Austin
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"Alfred Austin" Legum Doctor/DL was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 upon the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

Across the wires the electric message came: / `He is no better, he is much the same.'