Garden Quotes - Page 37

• Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.

  Albert Howard

  Civilization, Fertility, Soil

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• Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Nature, Health

  'Letters on a Regicide Peace' Letter 3 (1797)

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• The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Land, Cities, City Planning

  My Summer in a Garden "SixteenthWeek" (1870)

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• To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Flower, Mean, Borders

  Gertrude Jekyll (1919). “Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden”

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• Good bones are important, so it is wise to go slowly and get your plan right before launching into a vital project.

  Rosemary Verey

  Wise, Important, Bones

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• Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an overall look as well as for its individual charms.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Keys, Looks, Individual

  Penelope Hobhouse (2001). “Flower garden designs”

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• Structure is the most important component in a successful planting; colour is important too but it is a secondary consideration.

  Piet Oudolf

  Successful, Important, Consideration

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• We should not feel separate from nature, we are a part of it. We need to cover our footprints.

  Dan Pearson

  Needs, Footprint, Should

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• I like to see and understand a space, to hear everyone's point of view in order to respond to many different needs.

  Martha Schwartz

  Views, Order, Space

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• All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Body, Study, Knows

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Patrick Joseph Meehan (1984). “The master architect: conversations with Frank Lloyd Wright”, Wiley-Interscience

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• To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.

  Christopher Tunnard

  Landscape, Plant, Composition

  Christopher Tunnard (2014). “Gardens in the Modern Landscape: A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition”, p.117, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself.

  Kathryn Gustafson

  Land, Design, Soul

  "A memorial to incompetence" by Deyan Sudjic, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2005.

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• My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

  Russell Page

  Rocks, Water, Tree

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• The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what you do from your life.

  Dan Kiley

  Design, Important

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• When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet.

  Jacques Wirtz

  Design, Quiet, Aim

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• A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes.

  Roberto Burle Marx

  Mistake, Artist, Past

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• A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.

  Edwin Lutyens

  Should Have, Ideas, Schemes

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• Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.

  Gilles Clement

  Attitude, Acceptance, Serenity

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• What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.

  Claude Monet

  Flower, Men, Matter

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• I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

  Claude Monet

  Flower, Heart, Forever

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• The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

  Claude Monet

  Light, Atmosphere, Minutes

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• My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I established myself here, there was nothing but a farmhouse and a poor orchard...I bought the house and little by little I enlarged and organized it...I dug, planted weeded, myself; in the evenings the children watered.

  Claude Monet

  Children, Years, House

  Claire Joyes, Claude Monet (1975). “Monet at Giverny”, Wh Smith Pub

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• Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.

  Claude Monet

  Blue, Chocolate, Doctrine

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• Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

  Claude Monet

  Flower, Unhappy, Youth

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• What I need most of all is color, always, always.

  Claude Monet

  Color, Needs

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