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“Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.”

— Robert Irwin

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Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

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It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention.

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Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they'll be here long after us. They're the only things standing after a hurricane.

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There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.

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There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.

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Every situation has qualities. Essentially, we quantify them and that's the practical side of our lives, so the involvement with perception and in acquiring the perception is our ability to understand qualities. They exist only as long as a human being keeps them in play. They're - Therefore they are akin to energy.

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