The Potomac River from below Alexandria, Virginia, ca. 1895, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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Paradise
From a word of Iranian source, pairidaeza, meaning 'enclosure' or 'garden'. Pairdaeza is a compound of pairi- 'around' and -diz 'to make, form (a wall).'- CLICK ON ANY IMAGE FOR A LARGER VIEW.
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And change this Garden for a Paradise.
-- John Aubrey, from the epitaph for the Tradescants
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Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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Miriam had allowed her interest in gardening, which had gradually grown to a full-fledged hobby, to consume and define her. . . . She didn't care for clothes anymore, just equipment; knee pads, trowels, a little bench to carry about and kneel on. To pray to her god, the garden.
-- William H. Gass, from Middle C
In the novel, the main character's mother discovers her love for gardening after he gives her a stolen packet of annual seeds.
(Thanks to my Mom for this quote.)
Happy Father's Day Dad!
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Enclos*ure is my online notebook about the ways we carve gardens out of the larger landscape and create places of refuge, pleasure, and imagination.
I live in Kigali, Rwanda.
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-- William Matthews, from "The Waste Carpet"
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The walled garden, an old dying princess/From a lost country, had grown very strange. . . .
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I have a certificate in Landscape Design from George Washington University. I’m also a State Department Foreign Service spouse and have lived and made gardens in five countries in Africa. I currently live in Kigali, Rwanda.
Contact me: cgoodson51@gmail.com
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Wars are fought.
Blood turns.
Dirt is a wide unruly room.-- Sarah C. Harwell, from "Talking Back to the Mad World"
