People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
Source: In Observer (London), 20 Mar 1983.
-- John Betjeman, (Apr 6 1906-1984), English poet, broadcaster, and writer on architecture; He was the English Poet Laureate, 1972-1984; nostalgic and wary of change, he preferred the countryside to the city, and was impassioned in his abhorrence of modern architecture.