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“A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.”

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Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge.

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'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. A good…

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I'm tired, it's raining, and I am not a waterlily.

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“If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are a fact,…

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Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

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My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or…

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

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You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.

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A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than…

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A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.

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To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

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Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

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