Patrick

“Magenta, the discount pigment with which nature has brushed a thousand weeds, has always been a mark of bad breeding in the garden world.”
― Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

“I suppose the fascination of gardening lies a lot in the way one can plan for the future. Especially in such an insecure world. I open my morning paper and read of some fresh new horror the scientists have devised and then I plan some change in the garden that won’t be fully realized for at least five or six years. It’s illogical, of course, but it’s some comfort.”
― Angus Wilson, The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot

“They make extravagant use of gardens, do artists, they individualize them—a Monet garden is a world away from a Van Gogh garden—the garden may shape their work, but their gardens also shape our perception of the garden, of plants and flowers, so that, once seen, a particular painting will forever influence our own vision: reality is affected by metaphor.”
― Penelope Lively, Life in the Garden

“Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations