There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.
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.
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.
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful flowers, and the most delicious fruits.
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.
The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
I just like to sit and admire my garden; it's so well kept by my gardener and my girlfriend.
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