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The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. — John Ruskin
“…buildings should have enough care, complexity and emotional intelligence built into them that the people who pass them by every day are nourished by
“What if we designed our world to make us feel more alive?” Thomas Heatherwick
A garden is a way that the land says, “I love you.” … Gardens are simultaneously a material and a spiritual undertaking.
"Which of these has more life? Which of these is more a mirror of my self? Does this object make me feel my humanity is expanding—or contracting?"
The best work shapes the maker as much as the audience. The goal is to make something heavy, something with weight earned through genuine effort.

Following this logic, our brains reward a kept garden because it staves off wilderness, because in the wilderness there is death, and thus by keeping
If You Want to Belong, Find a Third Place
When it comes to established environments that serve the needs of as many people as possible, experts agree that public parks are the closest we have
Gardening offers an endless supply of these kinds of "neutralizers for perfectionism," as Lamp'l called them. He confessed to being a perfectionist hi