To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens.
In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
The National Mall is a special place for my wife and I. We got married on Signers Island in Constitution Gardens. It’s a little spot tucked away on the National Mall. There are lots of places like that where you can find a quiet place to get away from it all.
China has some cities, traditional cities, with a long history. They are so beautiful, and they were planned so smartly. I call them gardens on the city scale. For example, Beijing has mountains, waters, lakes, bridges, towers. It was a very poetic city.
No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated.
These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.
I like Toronto a lot, it’s a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you’re turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting.
My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
In my years of public service at both the federal and state levels, I have had the privilege of representing most of the communities that make up Congressional District 21, including Hialeah, Westchester, Doral, Kendall, Miami Lakes, Hialeah Gardens, Medley and Palmetto Bay.
There must be a way to combine the high rise and high-density environment with nature. Maybe we can have our gardens in the sky.
To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of wearables, walled gardens, and disruptive beverages in between updates about mass deportation.
When I’m in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.
Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man’s destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it’s what you will never see again.
On Edens Gardens pitch, nobody bowls well.
I have always felt that the best gardens aspired to coppice and that the best woods have all the elements of the very best gardens.
Despite loving England and loving English gardens, I’m not a chintz person, never was. It’s too cute.
My childhood was extremely unhappy. That’s not to say that my parents didn’t love me. But it was traumatic, and of course, art doesn’t come out of rosy gardens. It comes out of damage.
Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.
The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in bringing them forth in our window gardens. So long as their home-life aesthetics have not become ethics, women need not expect husbands, children, or servants to feel happy in the homes of their creation.
My favorite film involving scarves was little Edie in ‘Grey Gardens.’ I often wear scarves like that, under hats.
My earliest memory is a picnic in the park near our house, which was next to Wimbledon Common. Why on earth we went to a park when we lived so near the common is a mystery, but it had formal gardens and lawns – perhaps it was that very difference that took my parents there.
When you go back to the days when I was studying how to paint, some of the things that excited me most was to go into the Huntington Library and Gardens and to see the amazing pictures of the landed gentry.
People’s backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
The Learning Hub is a collection of handmade concrete towers surrounding a central space that brings everyone together, interspersed with nooks, balconies and gardens for informal collaborative learning.
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