The figure here is of a beautiful, fruitful enclosure, not a wilderness. Garden soil is cultivated soil, very different from the roadside or wilderness. The idea of a garden is culture. The ground has to be prepared, to be broken up by ploughing, to be mellowed by harrowing. All the stones have...
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Topics: Wilderness, A.B. Simpson, Fruitful, Beautiful, Cultivated Soil, Ploughing
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