#garden

Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.' ↗

— Susannah York

#garden #had #house #i #incredible

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#deeply #gardens #heart #how #human

A garden path,' write the landscape architects Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, and William Turnbull, 'can become the thread of a plot, connecting moments and incidents into a narrative. The narrative structure might be a simple chain of events with a beginning, middle, and end. It might be embellished with diversions, digressions, and picaresque twists, be accompanied by parallel ways (subplots), or deceptively fork into blind alleys like the althernative scenerios explored in a detective novel. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#landscape-architecture #page- #architecture

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#gardening #self-sufficiency #art

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#gardens #work #beauty

On the warm stone walls, climbing roses were just coming into bloom and great twisted branches of honeysuckle and clematis wrestled each other as they tumbled up and over the top of the wall. Against another wall were white apple blossoms on branches cut into sharp crucifixes and forced to lie flat against the stone. Below, the huge frilled lips of giant tulips in shades of white and cream nodded in their beds. They were almost finished now, spread open too far, splayed, exposing obscene black centers. I've never had my own garden but I suddenly recognized something in the tangle of this one that wasn't beauty. Passion, maybe. And something else. Rage. ↗

— Meg Rosoff

#edmond #garden #passion #rage #war

The most beautiful garden is always the one that we have made it with our own efforts! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#anything #bruce #bruce springsteen #day #does

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. ↗

— Dorothy Malone

#cotton #dusty #get #horses #i

They are like the handful of belongings saved from a burnt-down house. There should be a continuous challenge to authority for change and reform, and groups of ordinary people should form an alliance to reclaim what was taken by the state inch by inch, like a children's game, and enlarge the territory to the level of practical equality. ↗

— Hwang Sŏk-yŏng

#socialism-communism-marxism #the-old-garden #change