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A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has e

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. – Luther Burbank

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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. – Robert Smithson

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A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant – rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance – but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. – Roberto Burle Marx

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