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"To see the universe within
a place is to see a garden;
To see it so is to have a garden;
Not to prevent its happening is
to build a garden."
- James Rose, Modern American Gardens (1967)
"I'm no missionary. I do what pleases me."
-Personal interview with Dean Cardasis (1991)
"Space is the constant in all three-dimensional design, but a realization of space is not possible until it is defined by materials."
- James Rose, "Plant Forms and Space." Pencil Points (1938)
"They are like giant origami, the experience of which unfolds from the inside."
-Dean Cardasis, Pioneers of American Landscape Design (2000)
"I decided to go at the construction as you might a painting or sculpture. I set up the basic armature of walls, and roofs, and open spaces to establish their relationships, but left it free in detail to allow for improvisation. In that way it would never be "finished," but constantly evolving from one stage to the next - a metamorphosis such as we find, commonly, in nature."
- James Rose, Creative Gardens (1958)
Copyright Frederick Charles
"Words! Can we ever untangle
them?"
- James Rose, "Articulate Form in Landscape Design." Pencil Points (1939)
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