A garden with real life comes from thinking in living terms about every plant, every path, every bush, the fertilizer, the water, every little wall.

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• Living process in a garden depends on people following their own hearts, allowing the call of their own hearts, dreams, feeling, to become actual in this place.claim0.826
  The necessity of authentic personal investment for living process to succeed.
• The form of the garden, and its living structure, come from progressive unfolding the position of one plant continuing and unfolding from the earlier growth of another.claim0.800
  Definition of garden form as a sequential, emergent process.
• If the fundamental process is working, a garden becomes a trace of the history of the land.claim0.796
  Key causal claim: unfolding process produces a legible history in the garden's form.
• Does each door, building, fence, garden actually reflect human beings, individuals, families, passion, reality?question0.791
  Phenomenological test for whether an environment supports belonging
• That is the essence of all gardens, and all agriculture: that built materials, human-made structures create a setting in which people, animals and plants can thrive.claim0.791
  Definitional claim about gardens as a symbiosis of built structure and living nature.
• The loveliest gardens come from allowing nature to take its course very strongly, helping it to be more like nature.claim0.788
  A prescription for gardening based on non-interference.
• What we call 'life' is a general condition which exists, to some degree or other, in every part of space: brick, stone, grass, river, painting, building, daffodil, human being, forest, city.quote0.780
  Verbatim statement of the fundamental hypothesis, defining the scope of life.
• To treat the gardens as positive — more positive, even, than the buildings themselves — that is the first step.claim0.778
  The inversion of typical priority: garden space should be shaped as strongly as (or stronger than) buildings.