We are perverse creatures and ...

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
 Nan Fairbrother

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Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.
 Nan Fairbrother
... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.
 Nan Fairbrother