Buddhism Quote by Jack Gilbert

“Much has been said of the aesthetic values of chanoyu- the love of the subdued and austere- most commonly characterized by the term, wabi.…

— Okakura Kakuzo

“There are no borders in bonsai. The dove of peace flies to palace as to humble house, to young as to old, to rich…

— John Yoshio Naka

“Hokusai managed to integrate this into a Japanese vision of landscapes and nature prints which strike the Western viewer as utterly Japanese, and the…

— Matthi Forrer

“It is not, of course, only the Japanese who find flat sterile surfaces attractive and kirei. Foreign observers, too, are seduced by the crisp…

— Alex Kerr

“trees [-] Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a ‘person-of-the-arts,’ limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the wind’s music, the…

— A. A. Attanasio

“I went round the side of the house, and stared at the garden in horror. The ivy had almost taken over. There were still…

— Jacqueline Wilson

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

— Stephen Gardiner

Smoke trees that make me look japanese.

— Mac Dre

“In this city of concave algae ponds, my mother begins to plant bonsais, nettle and leaf: silk against the skin.”

— Sneha Subramanian Kanta

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you…

— J. Carter Brown

“As a matter of historical fact, Japan has suffered far less from wars, famines, and floods than China, for example, where these disasters have…

— Alex Kerr

There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced.…

— Russell Page