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Garden Design
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Charles Jencks is the most notable landscape and garden designer to carry forward the 3500 BCE-1800CE landscape and garden design agenda.
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― British Gardens: History, philosophy and design
― British Gardens: History, philosophy and design
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I rebuke societies that impart to their flowers their cold and rigid demeanour. Flowers should not stand with the stiffness of a soldier on parade but must carry themselves with the relaxedness of a dancer, their arms outstretched above a shaggy mane. Life reveals few sights as distressing as the look of flowers standing mournfully at attention unstirred by the kisses of a million bees. This infection of uncomely reserve is the handiwork of sombre gardeners bred in sombre societies who will not
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― The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock
― The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock
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