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.

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• The beauty and force of any building arises always, and in its entirety, from the deep functional nature of the centers that have been created.claim0.797
  Core principle tying beauty directly to deeply functional centers.
• The individuality of every part and every place is a structural characteristic of all living tissue, in leaves and rocks and water, as in human streets and dwellings IF they have their life.claim0.794
  Universality claim: uniqueness at every scale is a hallmark of all living systems
• 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.claim0.791
  Prescription for mindful, granular attention in gardening.
• It is, then, this love of life which is embodied in the conception of a building, in its detail, in its execution - because the wholeness that people paid attention to really was the whole, really was all of life, and people were not ashamed or too frightened to respond to all of it in their actions as builders.claim0.790
  Love as the driving force of living creation.
• We human beings will have achieved the structure-preserving unfolding achieved by flowers and grasses on a hillside.claim0.789
  Aspirational claim about the future capacity to create as nature does.
• Each building enlivens and intensifies the land.claim0.789
  The land—its valleys, ridges, trees, paths—are improved, made more solid, given a more living structure by a well-placed building.
• Seats, fences, and other centers, placed in the landscape to connect the garden with the buildings, will form a continuity of structure between inside and outside.claim0.789
  The function of garden structures as connectors that erase the boundary.
• Nature can include buildings, and roads and bridges, together with rocks and soil.claim0.785