Gilles Clement quotes

“Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.”
-- Gilles Clement

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“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”

“This is advice I would give to any young actor - if you go into a room with anybody and you come in with a positive attitude and a place of love, and you truly do love what you're doing, then the negative energy doesn't even get into the room. You just have to prepare, and then go in and be the best you that you can be, and you'll either get the job or you won't.”

Source : "Adam Baldwin Talks THE LAST SHIP, Auditioning for Michael Bay, Striking Up a Friendship with Eric Dane, Looking Back on FIREFLY and THE INSIDE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 6, 2014.

“If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.”

Source : "Adam Yauch on Happiness: Part Two". Interview with Randy Taran, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

“A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.”

“God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.”

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

“There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise,”

Source : "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

“It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.”

“Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.”

Source : Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.1, Courier Corporation

“She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.”