Francis Bacon quote about God from The Essays of Francis Bacon - God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
 Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon (1597). copy citation

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“A green court plain, with a wall about it; a second court of the same, but more garnished, with little turrets, or rather embellishments, upon the wall; and a third court, to make a square with the front, but not to be built, nor yet enclosed with a naked wall, but enclosed with terraces, leaded aloft, and fairly garnished, on the three sides; and cloistered on the inside, with pillars, and not with arches below. As for offices, let them stand at distance, with some low galleries, to pass from them to the palace itself.
Of Gardens GOD Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks; and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection.” source

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