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I'm a plant eater.
Europe has been in my bones.
Man is nature as much as the trees.
All gardening is landscape painting.
Garden as though you will live forever.
I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden.
A garden should feel like a walk in the woods.
I believe in gardening the soil as well as the soul.
Cant you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?
Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?
We're all nurtured by mother nature's cycles and seasons.
What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.
It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.
Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like.
No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.
The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination.
I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.
The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.
Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?
Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself.
A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.
Should not the role of design be to reconnect human beings with their space on their land?
Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone.
What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?
The essence of the enjoyment of a garden is that things should look as though they like to grow in it.
Plant spacious parks in your cities, and loose their gates as wide as the morning, to the whole people.
Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.
I have always thought, "If the city cannot come to the country, then the country must come to the city."
I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors.
Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply with its ways... they serve as models of how things should be.
We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times.
It's not just about facts, information and technical know how... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition.
The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.
I like to see and understand a space, to hear everyone's point of view in order to respond to many different needs.
Every creature and plant is part of her (mother nature's) amazing interconnected garden... The whole world is a garden.
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.
But we have to look after mother nature so she can look after us - the water, the soil, the air and all the life within it.
But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.
Every plant has its fitness and must be placed in its proper surroundings so as to bring out its full beauty. Therein lies the art of landscaping.
The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.
Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach an undisturbed lesson of life.
Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.
The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.
Fear not, too much, an open enemy; He is consistent--always at his post; But watchful be of him who holds the key Of your own heart, and flatters you the most.
In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's happening. It just happens.