Mark Pesce (1962) American writer
An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version http://hyperreal.org/~mpesce/interview.html
“I am an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. A graffiti artist beautifies walls; I beautify parkways and yards. I treat the garden as a piece of cloth and the plants and the trees are the embellishment of that cloth. You’d be surprised what soil can do if you let it be your canvas.”
Ron Finley at TED2013 (2013)
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