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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.

Paradox that wildness requires formal built support to reach its highest expression.

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Wild and Cultivated Garden
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The ideal garden state where formality provides a backdrop for wild, unkempt growth, achieving a living quality.

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We human beings will have achieved the structure-preserving unfolding achieved by flowers and grasses on a hillside.claim0.765
Aspirational claim about the future capacity to create as nature does.
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.claim0.761
Definition of garden form as a sequential, emergent process.
The loveliest gardens come from allowing nature to take its course very strongly, helping it to be more like nature.claim0.758
A prescription for gardening based on non-interference.
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.claim0.754
Prescription for mindful, granular attention in gardening.
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.claim0.751
Analogy emphasizing that geometry enables organic richness.
If the fundamental process is working, a garden becomes a trace of the history of the land.claim0.751
Key causal claim: unfolding process produces a legible history in the garden's form.
A truly dynamic structure-preserving process generates layouts in which every single bit of space becomes a living center — streets, lots, gardens, courtyards, housesclaim0.747
Core claim about the morphological output of the fundamental process applied to neighborhood design.
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.claim0.746
The function of garden structures as connectors that erase the boundary.