Penelope Hobhouse famous quotes

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Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an overall look as well as for its individual charms.
-- Penelope Hobhouse

#Garden #Keys #Looks
Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature.
-- Penelope Hobhouse

#Art #Garden #Design
Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent.
-- Penelope Hobhouse

#Gardener #Absent
The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates, the so-called cradle of civilization, where plants were first grown for crops by settled communities, garden enclosures were also constructed. Gardens emphasized the contrast between two separate worlds: the outer one where nature remained awe-inspiringly in control and an inner artificially created sanctuary, a refuge for man and plants from the burning desert, where shade trees and cool canals refreshed the spirit and ensured growth.
-- Penelope Hobhouse

#Nature #Men #Garden
The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity and order, proportion, colour and utility, and, furthermore, be capable of arousing feelings of grandeur, gaiety, sadness, wildness, domesticity, surprise and secrecy.
-- Penelope Hobhouse

#Sadness #Garden #Views
A garden is to be enjoyed, and should satisfy the mind and not only the eye of the beholder. Sounds such as the rustle of bamboo and the dripping of water, scents and sensations such as grass or gravel or stone underfoot, appeal to the emotions and play a part in the total impression.
-- Penelope Hobhouse

#Eye #Garden #Play
The ideal garden is one in which a collection of trees, shrubs and plants have been procured and allotted to the best space available and are so arranged and tended that they are seen to their advantage, each in relation to the other. Every plant, of whatever shape or size, should be chosen not only for its individual merits but for its power to enhance the charms of neighbouring plants by contrast or combination in foliage or in flower colour.
-- Penelope Hobhouse

#Flower #Garden #Space

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.
Language is the key to the heart of people.
What is the key to life on Earth?
A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.
Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

Penelope Hobhouse famous quotes

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