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" Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time. "

Peter Zumthor

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" I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. "

Hayley Mills

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" I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it. "

" I like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can have some herb pots. "

" And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. "

" You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around. "

" In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. "

" I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. "

" When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities. "

" My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling. "

" I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers. "

" If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel. "

" Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. "

" Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. "

" Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. "

" I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work. "

" A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. "

" Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening. "

" I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden. "

" I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish? "

" Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven? "

" How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. "

" If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. "

" There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. "

" When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again. "

" I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening. "

Dennis Basso

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Gardening

" I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands. "

" Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow. "