“The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.”
Piet Oudolf
more infosource: “A Landscape in Winter, Dying Heroically,” by Sally McGrane, New York Times, January 31, 2008.
category: death, flower, landscape, lifecycle, nature, plant
medium: Newspaper profile
“In my garden everything grows on top of everything else, and I let them fight it out.”
Elizabeth Lawrence
more infosource: May 1959 letter to Katharine S. White, in Two Gardeners: A Friendship in Letters (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2002), 29.
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category: garden, nature, plant
medium: Letter
“If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t.”
Michael Pollan
more infosource: Food Rules (New York: Penguin, 2009), 41.
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category: advice, diet, factory, food, health, plant
medium: nonfiction
“Eating what stands on one leg [mushrooms and plant foods] is better than eating what stands on two legs [fowl], which is better than eating what stands on four legs [cows, pigs, and other mammals].”
Michael Pollan
more infosource: Food Rules (New York: Penguin, 2009), 55.
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category: cow, diet, eating, food, fowl, health, livestock, mushroom, pig, plant, self-care
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“The gardens [in Japan] are works of art in design, planting and miniaturization. The Japanese favor green gardens, not flowers which die, but evergreens, carpets of moss. Always, the accompaniment of water from a stream directed to fall drop by drop from a bamboo pipe. Each time it stops to allow the water to accumulate, it makes a sound like one dry slap on a drum.”
Anaïs Nin
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