Richmond Park

"Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness."

(Michael Pollan)

"Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come."

(Karen Joy Fowler)

Paris

"When Victor Hugo was buried, you couldn't find a whore in Paris, they were too busy paying their respects. That was a man-and he still has a show in the west end."

(Hanif Kureishi)

"At five o,clock Paris  always has a current of eroticism in the air."

(Anais Nin)

Paris

"He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing more tragic. Nothing is more sublime."

(Victor Hugo)

"The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortals heart)."

(Charles Baudelaire)