For the young Chambers who had sailed the seas with the East India Company, the complex politicized and nationalistic dispute about gardens that he became embroiled in must have made about as much sense as talk of ice to a summer insect.
對於少年時期就隨東印度公司揚帆四海的錢柏斯來說，參與這場夾雜著政治歧見與愛國情緒的園林之辯，的確也有夏蟲語冰之苦。