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- Nov 07, 2020
Gardening Quotes
Lessons that grow slower than we'd like.
These lines treat the garden as a teacher of restraint - asking how much tending is actually enough, and noting that too much outside help can loosen a person's own claim on the work. Related ideas continue in our Garden collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm huge on spring and summer gardening. I'm really proud of my perennial beds. That's a passion of mine.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.
- Environmentalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I'd say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything.
- Disappearance
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- Nov 07, 2020
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020