Robert Frost, great American poet, penned the proverb: “Good fences make good neighbors.” The essence of what he was saying — the less you know about me, the more we both keep to ourselves, the better off we’ll be — would appear a timeless aphorism: man at heart is a private being. Yet fencing can only be erected so high — specifically, six feet in my Homeowner Association (HOA) — thus offering a lackluster barrier.
Better still, Benjamin Franklin wrote, in Poor Richard’s Almanack, a more practical (of course he would) version: “Love your neighbor; yet don’t pull down your hedge.” And here Franklin identifies the real solution to neighborly seclusion: dense landscaping.
Link to article: https://issuu.com/livvero/docs/vivant_april2024_1_/s/47613013
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