What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.
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I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.
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I suppose also I came to classicism through reading philosophy, but I suppose the interest was already in me or I wouldn't have read philosophy.
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Yes, I think we have created a culture in which there is a complete absence of piety of any kind. And piety was always an ingredient of culture.
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