3 Quotes & Sayings By Gene Logsdon

Gene Logsdon is a world-renowned garden designer, teacher, and author of nine books on gardening. He is a member of the Garden Writers' Association of America and the American Society for Horticultural Science. Over the past 33 years, he has actively taught more than 15,000 people from around the globe how to create gardens from an idea to a finished project. Gene has been featured in over 70 magazines including Sunset, Sunset Books, Sunset Western Garden Book, Sunset Western Garden Calendar, Sunset Western Garden Journal, Sunset Western Home and Garden, Sunset Western Home and Garden Specials, The Country Life Gardener's Companion, The Country Life Gardener's Irrigation Guide, and The Country Life Gourmet Guide Read more

Gene also writes a weekly column for The Washington Post.

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Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings? Gene Logsdon
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Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures. Gene Logsdon