Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal. (Henry Ward Beecher)

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

Henry Ward Beecher

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