The loveliest gardens come from allowing nature to take its course very strongly, helping it to be more like nature.

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• 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.claim0.788
  Prescription for mindful, granular attention in gardening.
• A flower is one of the most perfect fields of centers that occur in nature, which explains why flowers are universally experienced as beautifulclaim0.770
  Explains universal aesthetic response to flowers via field-of-centers theory
• To treat the gardens as positive — more positive, even, than the buildings themselves — that is the first step.claim0.769
  The inversion of typical priority: garden space should be shaped as strongly as (or stronger than) buildings.
• Positive space in gardens must be created by placing buildings to form positive outdoor spaces, then differentiating them with structures, then allowing natural life to animate further centers.claim0.766
  Operational sequence for creating positive garden space.
• 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.claim0.764
  Definition of garden form as a sequential, emergent process.
• The wildness of an unfolded garden does not become most natural without support; it becomes most vivid when supported by a delicate system of small walls, edges, terraces, trellised structure.claim0.758
  Paradox that wildness requires formal built support to reach its highest expression.
• 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.claim0.740
  Analogy emphasizing that geometry enables organic richness.
• The great beauty of Japan, in traditional times, came from an understanding that human life is most beautiful, when many things are a little small.quote0.738
  Alexander's aesthetic principle explaining the appeal of the intimate scale.