Graham Stuart Thomas quotes
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“A garden is mainly ...a space around which interests can be accumulated.”
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“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 ThomasSource : Graham Stuart Thomas (1984). “The art of planting, or, The planter's handbook”, David R Godine Pub
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“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.”
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“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 ThomasSource : Graham Stuart Thomas (1979). “Great gardens of Britain”
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“It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.”
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Source : "Directing the Film". Book by Ed Sherman, 1976.
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“I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.”
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Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 52), 1937.
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“I'm curious about everything--even things that don't interest me.”
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