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Die under wealth

2021-07-27T18:01:28.359Z


In his latest book translated into Spanish, 'The Gardener's Wisdom', Gilles Clément extends his crusade to leave gardens alone to leave ourselves alone


Gilles Clément, pictured in his Paris home.Julie Glassberg

One of the great teachers of Gilles Clément was Jean-Baptiste Lamark, who advanced Darwin in the idea of ​​evolution with the transformism that he observed by observing the life of trees and plants.

As early as 1820 he wrote that “human beings seem bent on destroying their means of conservation and even their own species.

It is as if it was destined to exterminate itself after making the globe uninhabitable. "

The landscaper, gardener, teacher and essayist Gilles Clément remembers that warning and thus sums up the human project (consciously or unconsciously): to die under wealth.

Clément's way of relating to nature seeks to escape this drift.

In

The Gardener's Wisdom

(Gustavo Gili

)

, he writes down keys to change what is no longer enough to do in a garden.

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  • The garden in motion

There is no better way to define the garden than to investigate its origin: an enclosure designed to protect the best.

The best of fruits and vegetables, the nutritious flora and diversity, the best of trees and flowers is the art of placing them.

Precisely that placement has acquired importance over time until it has become an art.

The art of gardens has traditionally manifested its excellence through architecture, planning, landscaping and ornament.

But for Clément, these criteria are no longer enough.

Here are some of the proposals that his new book includes to take up the care and design of the garden and, with it, the care of our life and that of those who will come later.

View of the garden designed by Clément for the Quai de Brainly Museum in Paris.

"From now on you have to take care of the living."

Consider it, know it.

Become their friend.

So looking might just as well be the fairest way to garden in the future.

—The life that takes place in the gardens, being threatened, becomes the main argument of the provisions whose charge erases without prohibiting the priorities of yesteryear: manipulating the perspective, arranging the landscapes as paintings, composing the massifs, organizing parties and hobbies.

—In a garden, at no time is it possible to describe a situation as something stable or definitive.

The teachings erase the certainties and when architecture is physically expressed as something fixed it is a hindrance to the garden.

On the other hand, when architecture represents an idea, it makes the garden a sublime place.

—In an ordinary garden, let's say horticultural, the sum of the hindrances does not reach a tenth of the territory.

The obstacles of the vegetation are a hut of tools, the tools, trellises, curbs, trellises, a greenhouse or a seedbed in the garden.

—The future of humanity is directly validated by our way of life.

You can work in the garden respecting the traditions.

Also in a different way.

—It is important to discover nature before enslaving it.

—That's the way it is: how to find a solution to make the biological fact and the scenery compatible?

It would not occur to an animal to run out of the food it needs every day forever.

Your life depends on it.

“Each building carries its own ruin, including each person;

never nature ”.

Source: elparis

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