Historic Cork Gardens of County Cork, Ireland.
Read more about Historic Cork Gardens: Annes Grove Gardens, Ardnagashel House, Ashbourne House, Ballintober, Bantry House, Belgrove, Besborough, Castlemartyr, Cork Botanic Gardens, Creagh, Drombrow House, Fota Island, Hollybrook House, Ilnacullin, Lakelands, Lisselane, Myrtle Grove, The College, Youghal
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“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“When Prince William [later King William IV] was at Cork in 1787, an old officer ... dined with him, and happened to say he had been forty years in the service. The Prince with a sneer asked what he had learnt in those forty years. The old gentleman justly offended, said, “Sir, I have learnt, when I am no longer fit to fight, to make as good a retreat as I can” —and walked out of the room.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.”
—Robert Duncan (b. 1919)