According to the Times Gazette, Benjamin Franklin wrote in the “Poor Richard’s Almanac” “Love your neighbor as yourself, yet don’t pull down your hedges.” This is based, of course, on the biblical passage “love your fellow person as yourself”, and was the basis for the well-known passage in Robert Frost’s poem ‘North of Boston’ in which he writes “My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says ‘Good fences make good neighbors”. To read our full blog Click here .