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“place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.”

“One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He will be happier if he has no rigid and arbitrary ideals, for gardens are coquettish, particularly with the novice.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Littles Ideals Garden Plant Simplicity Satisfied Peace Of Mind Arbitrary Novices

Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey

“The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.”

Mind Running Flower Ideals Garden Weed Flower Garden

Author:Margaret Oliphant

“Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.”

Reality White Example Ideals Garden Paint Imperfection Realism Mud Gowns Specks White Gown

Author:Mason Cooley

“An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.”

Shows Would Be Past House Audience Ideals Garden Nostalgia Intense Museums Provoking Mating Brideshead Revisited

Author:Robert Hughes

“A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a boat, or a balloon.”

“You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've got to dream a garden.”

Ifs Want Trying Mind Firsts Kind Dream Ideals Garden

Book:A Lantern in Her Hand

Source: A Lantern in Her Hand

“Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.”

Nature Existence Fate Summer Ideals Garden Essence Comic Tragic June Lyrical

Book:Animal Faith and Spiritual Life

Source: Animal Faith and Spiritual Life

“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”

Past Political Artist Values Social Century Ideals Garden Finished Gardening Representation 20th Century Sculpture 18th Century Social Values Finished Work

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings