some random quotes

All gar­den­ing is land­scape painting.–Alexander Pope

Plant­ing ground is paint­ing a land­scape with liv­ing thing.–Gertrude Jekyll

Once prop­erly exam­ined, Jekyll’s com­par­i­son looks to be both super­fi­cial and exaggerated.–David E. Cooper

The Japan­ese gar­den designer cre­ates a the­ater for the wind to speak.–Ezra Pound

Any one can cre­ate a pretty lit­tle bam­boo gar­den in the world. But I doubt that the gar­dener would suc­ceed in incor­po­rat­ing the world in his bam­boo garden.–Hermann Hesse

The life of a seri­ous gar­dener is not one that, as it hap­pens involves some gar­den­ing. Instead, it is one partly define by the struc­tured, reg­u­lar activ­i­ties which are imposed once the deci­sion to grow and to gar­den is made.–David E. Cooper

All the above from David E. Cooper’s A Phi­los­o­phy of Gardens

February 04 2008 07:08 pm | Categories: gardening • quotes |

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