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claim: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

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.

Definition of garden form as a sequential, emergent process.

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This living structure in a garden is very different from the kind of structure typically created by 20th-century landscape design or landscape architecture.claim0.821
Contrastive claim distinguishing the result of living process from conventional practice.
We human beings will have achieved the structure-preserving unfolding achieved by flowers and grasses on a hillside.claim0.817
Aspirational claim about the future capacity to create as nature does.
It is the geometry of these built structures, which, like the shell of a mollusc, makes the growing of the garden, and its resulting richness, possible.claim0.800
Analogy emphasizing that geometry enables organic richness.
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.claim0.800
Prescription for mindful, granular attention in gardening.
The living structure emerges, slowly, step by step, and as the process goes forward step by step there is continuous feedback which allows the process to guide the system towards greater wholeness, and coherence, and adaptation.quote0.799
Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.
It is my belief that a garden is a structure — not very different from a building.claim0.798
Foundational claim that gardens are built artifacts, not merely natural growth.
If the fundamental process is working, a garden becomes a trace of the history of the land.claim0.794
Key causal claim: unfolding process produces a legible history in the garden's form.
The structure we know as living structure is just that kind of structure which has unfolded smoothly and naturally, arising step by step from what exists, preserving the structure of what exists.claim0.785
Defines living structure as the product of a truthful unfolding process that respects and preserves existing wholeness.