Beatrix Farrand quotes

“No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.”
-- Beatrix Farrand

Source : Beatrix Farrand, Carmen Messinger Pearson (2009). “The Collected Writings of Beatrix Farrand: American Landscape Gardener (1872-1959)”, p.128, UPNE

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“Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?”
-- Beatrix Farrand

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“The essence of the enjoyment of a garden is that things should look as though they like to grow in it.”
-- Beatrix Farrand

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“There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.”

“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”

Source : Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”

“Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.”

“We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days--our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.”

Source : "The Silent Wife".

“The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.”

“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”

Source : Alice Munro (2013). “Runaway”, p.252, Random House

“Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time”

“No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.”

Source : Beatrix Farrand, Carmen Messinger Pearson (2009). “The Collected Writings of Beatrix Farrand: American Landscape Gardener (1872-1959)”, p.128, UPNE

“But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.”

“Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.”