Piet Oudolf famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Structure is the most important component in a successful planting; colour is important too but it is a secondary consideration.
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A plant is only worth growing if it looks good when it is dead.
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The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.
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The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.
-- Piet Oudolf
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We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.
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Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
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Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.
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It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.
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Be kind to your garden and be gentle on your back!
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Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.
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Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.
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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.
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