I have never understood why so many gardeners favour straight lines and narrow, regulated borders; perhaps they think wildness could work only in a larger space.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In nature there are few sharp lines.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature.
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
A boundary is really something artificial we made up. The ecosystem and landscape continue.
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
If every plant and flower were found in all places, the charm of locality would not exist. Everything varies, and that gives the interest.
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.
Wild flowers grow where they will.