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Re: Gardens - A World Wide Panorama
Richard Crowest 2006-Jun-20 18:58:00
Caroling wrote:
> If so, what would distinguish the wild garden from the wild?
I think you said it: intention. One one level, garden is making art
with living plants. On another, if there's a natural place where you
like to sit, appreciate and reflect, then that, too, is a kind of
garden, though the intention is in the mind of the beholder, not the
creator/arranger. Horace Walpole said of the landscape gardener
William Kent that he "leapt the fence, and found all nature was a
garden".
To me, gardens are where people and nature come together for the
purpose of creating pure pleasure - and, being in my second year of
vegetable gardening, I very much include that activity in the
definition! Which reminds me, I must go and water the tomatoes...
Happy panographing, everyone,
Richard
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