Occupation: Garden Designer Birth: 1906 Death: 1985
There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. . . . Japanese artists working ….
A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise..
To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world..
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations..
You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls..
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 merely a….
'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. A good garden cannot be m….
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 g….
Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge..
Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings..
Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart..
I'm tired, it's raining, and I am not a waterlily..