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God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Francis Bacon

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Bacon, Francis "Of Gardens." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Gardens." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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We must cultivate our garden.

Voltaire

Candide

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Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide: or, All for the Best]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759, ch. 30.

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Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 30.

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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979, ch. 16.

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God the first garden made, and the first city, Cain.

Abraham Cowley

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Cowley, Abraham. "The Garden." Works. c. 1668.

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And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden.

Genesis 2:8

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Genesis 2:8).

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Cicero

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Letter to Marcus Terentius Varro. c. 46 BC.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Letters to Friends, edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey. Vol. 2, Harvard University Press, 2001.

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And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.