Graham Stuart Thomas quotes

A garden is mainly ...a space around which interests can be accumulated.
-- Graham Stuart Thomas

#Garden #Space #Interest

My own preference is for mixed (beds) where there are ...groups of larger shrubs on corners and elsewhere to give shape to the views and to create surprises.
-- Graham Stuart Thomas

#Views #Giving #Bed

It is far better to limit our choice to real permanencies, which do not require staking... and a general mixture throughout of dwarf shrubs, perennials and ground-covers, with bulbs... This has been called gardening in four layers, and I believe it to be the most satisfying form of gardening.
-- Graham Stuart Thomas

#Real #Believe #Dwarves

It is a simple matter to plant trees in straight lines, but informal groupings will test the sensitivities of the most experienced planter and the smaller the groups the more difficult they are to place.
-- Graham Stuart Thomas

#Simple #Tree #Groups

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

History is not written in the interests of morality.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

I'm curious about everything--even things that don't interest me.

To feel controlled is to lose interest.