Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
Category: gardening
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees – just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.
But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings – then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.
I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.