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“When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to a whole.”

Whole Space Objects Garden Site

Book:The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum

Source: The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum

“Object in/ and space - the first impulse may be to give the object - a position - to place the object. (The object had a position to begin with.) Next - to change the position of the object. - Rauschenberg's early sculptures - A board with some rocks on it. The rocks can be anywhere on the board. - Cage's Japanese rock garden - The rocks can be anywhere (within the garden).”

Giving Firsts May Next Space Rocks Position Objects Garden Impulse Boards Cages Sculpture

Author:Jasper Johns

“In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when a chunk of rock fell from the sky and killed a dog. This is the only known canine fatality caused by a cosmic object. Improbably though this encounter was already, its truly extraordinary nature was revealed only decades later when scientists found that the culprit was not a common-or-garden meteorite, but a piece of the planet Mars.”

Source: The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life

“A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy.”

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Author:Germaine Greer

“It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.”

Humans Play Might Earth Life Is Heaven Deals Objects Highest Garden Tasks Praise Human Life Playgrounds

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands.”

Men Book Hands Lines Watches Fronts Objects Flower Quiet Garden Delight Flats Fragile Passive Shelves Old Fashioned Gardener

Book:The Post Office Girl

Source: The Post Office Girl

“What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.”

Knows Giving Book Healing Objects Return Blessing Garden Educational

Book:The Solitary Summer

Source: The Solitary Summer

“What is this?” he went on now, spearing an unfortunate object on a fork and raising it to eye level. “This… this… thing?” “A parsnip?” Jem suggested. “A parsnip planted in Satan’s own garden.” said Will. He glanced about. “I don’t suppose there’s a dog I could feed it to.” “There don’t seem to be any pets about,” Jem—who loved all animals, even the inglorious and ill-tempered Church—observed. “Probably all poisoned by parsnips,” said Will.”

Said Seems Eye Church Animal Levels Dog Objects Garden Ill Satan Pet Unfortunate Forks Jem Ill Tempered Parsnips

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.”

Humans Play Earth Life Is Fun Heaven Objects Inspirational Life Garden Tasks Human Life Playgrounds Playing Games

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.”

Life Feels Eye America Friendship Known Millions Objects Benefits Garden Treats Neighbor Contact Relief Foe Crabs Crevice

Author:Paul Fleischman

“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 groups of plants.”

Water Groups Tree Rocks Fields Objects Garden Plant Woods Occupation Shrubs

Author:Russell Page

“When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God, who has given existence to that object.”

Thinking Beautiful Given Existence Objects Flower Garden Infinite Rays Beautiful Flower Beautiful Objects Infinite Beauty

Book:The Saint Alphonsus de Liguori Collection [30 Books]

Source: The Saint Alphonsus de Liguori Collection [30 Books]

“When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.”

Heart Said Earth Desire Secret Courage Objects Garden Seeds Graves Prophet Buried Inward Flourishing

Book:The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

“It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.”