Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth. ✨ S…

Thomas Browne
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Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1835). Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns, p.386
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Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1835). Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns, p.386

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