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"My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public."
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"Gardening is not a rational act."
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"As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit."
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"My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public."
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"I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden."
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"We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?"
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"All gardening is landscape painting."
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"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."
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"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."
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"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."
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"Garden as though you will live forever."
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"People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is."
People
"My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public."
Gardening
"No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural."
Work
"The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture."
Trust
"I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one."
Man
"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
Poems
"For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not."
Poetry
"What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever."
Events
"Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different."
Poetry
"If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work."
Work
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