Japanese Gardens Quotes

• In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Beauty, Learning, Garden

  Lafcadio Hearn (2015). “Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan”, p.4, Booklassic

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• No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

  J. Carter Brown

  Garden, Smell, Giving

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• The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Art, Garden, Doe

  Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design, the garden itself also reflects a deeper set of cultural meanings and traditions. Whereas the English garden seeks to make only an aesthetic impression, the Japanese garden is both aesthetic and reflective. The most basic element of any Japanese garden design comes from the realization that every detail has a significant value.

  E. J. W. Barber

  Art, Garden, House

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• Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Beautiful, Garden, Sight

  History of England (1911) "The Glory of the Garden"

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• We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.

  Michael Hutchence

  Party, Garden, Mad

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• My favorite thing is landscaping. I love landscaping. And so what I'll do is, mostly I put language into search engines, and if I want to look, like, at tulip gardens, or, like, Georgian gardens, i love English gardens, how they're laid out. Japanese gardens, Asian gardens. So, I'm kind of a frustrated landscaper.

  Michele Bachmann

  Love, Garden, Frustrated

  "Michele Bachmann's not so quiet exit" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2014.

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• I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.

  Jason Bateman

  Garden, Play, Tree

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