A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations, p.357
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