„The duty we owe to our gardens is to so use the plants that they shall form beautiful pictures; and that, while delighting our eyes.“
Gertrude Jekyll5
garden designer, artist 1843 - 1932Citações relacionadas
„Paint upon a palette, delighting our eyes with soul-satisfying pictures, a treasure of well set jewels a sympathy with growing things, fashioned into a dream of beauty, a place of perfect rest and refreshment of mind and body. This sense of beauty is a gift of God.“
— Gertrude Jekyll garden designer, artist 1843 - 1932
Colour in the Garden
„Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.“
— John Ruskin English writer and art critic 1819 - 1900
„We are part of nature and it is part of us. Everything about our species, from the shape of our teeth to the size of our brains, has been fashioned over millennia by our interaction with the plants and animals around us. What’s more, our sense of beauty and our greatest artistic achievements have been crafted in response to nature. Our yearning for wilderness is a hankering after the place we have come from, and from which we have become alienated in the headlong march of so-called progress.“
— Justin D. Fox South African author, photojournalist, lecturer and editor 1967
The Impossible Five (2015)
„And so shall your garden grow; from the rich soil of the humanities it will rise up and unfold in beauty in the pure air of the spirit.“
— Louis Sullivan American architect 1856 - 1924
Kindergarten Chats (1918), Context: Is it not Canon Hole who says: "He who would have beautiful roses in his garden, must have beautiful roses in his heart: he must love them well and always"? So, the flowers of your field, in so far as I am gardener, shall come from my heart where they reside in much good will; and my eye and hand shall attend merely to the cultivating, the weeding, the fungous blight, the noxious insect of the air, and the harmful worm below.
And so shall your garden grow; from the rich soil of the humanities it will rise up and unfold in beauty in the pure air of the spirit.
So shall your thoughts take up the sap of strong and generous impulse, and grow and branch, and run and climb and spread, blooming and fruiting, each after its kind, each flowing toward the fulfillment of its normal and complete desire. Some will so grow as to hug the earth in modest beauty; others will rise, through sunshine and storm, through drought and winter's snows year after year, to tower in the sky; and the birds of the air will nest therein and bring forth their young.
Such is the garden of the heart: so oft neglected and despised when fallow.
Verily, there needs a gardener, and many gardens.
Ch. 4 : The Garden
„When I think of art, I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is in the mind, not in the eye. In our minds, we have an awareness of perfection that leads us on... The response to beauty is emotion. Sometimes very subtle emotions of which we are almost not aware, and sometimes our most powerful emotions..“
— Agnes Martin American artist 1912 - 2004
1980 - 2000, The Skowhegan Lecture', 1987
„O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days!“
— Alphonse de Lamartine French writer, poet, and politician 1790 - 1869
The Lake (1820), st. 6
„Our beautiful planet is indeed worthy of our study; it was once our cradle—it will soon be our grave: between the dawn and the night of life, it is the scene of our busy action, and from it we shall rise to another state of being.“
— Gideon Mantell British scientist and obstetrician 1790 - 1852
The Wonders of Geology (1839), Vol. 1
„So, my brethren, let us do our work, that others entering on it may carry it forward through after generations. Thus shall the work of the fathers become the glory of fheir children; and in the end, when the mystery of God shall be finished, we shall see, in its completed beauty and proportion, the great fabric into which we put our little all; and we shall rejoice at once in the skill of the Architect and the diligence of the successive builders.“
— William Mackergo Taylor American theologian 1829 - 1895
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 126.
„The lights grew thicker unheeded,
For silent and still were we;
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty
Our eyes could never see.“
— George William Russell Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter 1867 - 1935
Context: Far up the dim twilight fluttered
Moth-wings of vapour and flame:
The lights danced over the mountains,
Star after star they came. The lights grew thicker unheeded,
For silent and still were we;
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty
Our eyes could never see.
"The Unknown God" (1913) http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/350.html
„The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.“
— Richard Wagner German composer, conductor 1813 - 1883
Opera and Drama (1851)
