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Nancy Fairbrother (1913–1971) was an English writer and lecturer on landscape and land use. She was a Member of the UK Institute of Landscape Architects, now the Landscape Institute. Her brother (James Alick (Rex) Fairbrother) was also a landscape architect.

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children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

Beings, Children, People, Race

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Affection, Fountain, Inspirational, Love

A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.

Choices, Design, Designs, Like, Ordinary

Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.

Gift, Offer, Offers, Should, Understanding, Uninvited

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. . . . we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

Eye, Hair, Inspirational, Longer, Push

One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.

Division, Human, Humans, Make, Use

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

Film, Momentum, Plot, Search, Stories, Story

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

Happiness, Luxury, Would Be, Completely, Expendable, Carefree

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

Children, Profound, Sorrow, Sorrows, Unsuspected

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.

Fighting, Friendly, Hostile, Ignore, Perhaps, Way

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

Imagination, Imagine, Profound, Real, Sorrows

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

Discontent, Dream, Needs, Poetry, Youth

We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?

Define, Happy, Know, Knows, Love, Loving

the urgent crowds out the essential.

Crowds, Essential, Essentials, Priorities, Urgent

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

Altogether, Appreciation, Benign, Garden, Gratitude, Nature

children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.

Children, Hands, Mostly, Trouble, Troubles, Unalterably

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

Advice, Experts, Giving, Happiness, People, Seldom

the large black slugs. . . come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.

Black, Dusk, Gun, Pairs, Summer

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

Emotion, Moods, People, Rarely, Tragedy

. . . 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.

Book, Educational, Expressing, Friendship, Patch, State