“ The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out. ”
- J. R. R. Tolkien- Copy
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“ Working with Daddy - it's sort of like playing tennis against somebody, instead of just hitting them into a hedge where they sort of go in, you know. ”
- Hayley Mills- Copy
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“ Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight — And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end. ”
- Emma Carleton- Copy
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“ I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. ”
- Sean Bean- Copy
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“ The instinctive act of humankind was to stand and listen, and learn how the trees on the right and the trees on the left wailed or chaunted to each other in the regular antiphonies of a cathedral choir; how hedges and other shapes to leeward then caught the note, lowering it to the tenderest sob; and how the hurrying gust then plunged into the south, to be heard no more. ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
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