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"When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us."

Robert Smithson on Gardening

More quotes about Gardening

• "He plants trees to benefit another generation."

  Caecilius Statius on Gardening

• "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

  Marcus Tullius Cicero on Gardening

• "What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Gardening

• "Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get."

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. on Gardening

• "The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."

  George Bernard Shaw on Gardening

More quotes by Robert Smithson

• "Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues."

• "Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is."

• "Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future."