I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

National Galleries of Scotland. The Little Sparta Trust plans to preserve Little Sparta for the nation by raising enough to pay for an ongoing maintenance fund. In Zdenek Felix & Pia Simig (eds.

Ian Hamilton Finlay CBE (28 October 1925 – 27 March 2006) was a Scottish poet writer artist and gardener.