WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.660 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:00:02.660 --> 00:00:03.360 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:00:03.360 --> 00:00:03.930 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:00:03.930 --> 00:00:05.670 align:middle line:90% These intros are brilliant. 00:00:05.670 --> 00:00:09.630 align:middle line:84% They're like the great illustration of this principle. 00:00:09.630 --> 00:00:13.000 align:middle line:84% And thank you all so much for coming. 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:15.360 align:middle line:84% Thank you, Marjorie, for organizing this whole thing. 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:17.370 align:middle line:84% And thank you for doing all the work. 00:00:17.370 --> 00:00:21.120 align:middle line:84% And it's a really exciting event. 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:23.310 align:middle line:84% I'm going to read two different things, 00:00:23.310 --> 00:00:27.220 align:middle line:84% a few pieces from a book that just came out called Ours. 00:00:27.220 --> 00:00:29.790 align:middle line:84% And it's about the gardens of André Le Nôtre, 00:00:29.790 --> 00:00:33.510 align:middle line:90% who was a 16th century-- 00:00:33.510 --> 00:00:37.020 align:middle line:84% 17th century, 1600s garden designer in France. 00:00:37.020 --> 00:00:40.770 align:middle line:84% And he's known as kind of the father of the Baroque garden. 00:00:40.770 --> 00:00:44.640 align:middle line:84% And he was the person who did Versailles, 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:47.610 align:middle line:84% in particular, a lot of what still remains of the Tuileries. 00:00:47.610 --> 00:00:50.460 align:middle line:84% And all the people that he worked for 00:00:50.460 --> 00:00:54.000 align:middle line:90% were aristocracy or royalty. 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:58.800 align:middle line:84% And yet, all of the gardens that he designed and the spaces 00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:00.990 align:middle line:90% are now almost all public parks. 00:01:00.990 --> 00:01:05.550 align:middle line:84% So there's this irony that's underscored by the fact that 00:01:05.550 --> 00:01:09.430 align:middle line:84% the word Le Nôtre means ours in French. 00:01:09.430 --> 00:01:13.200 align:middle line:84% So if you were to say c'est nôtre voiture, c'est la nôtre, 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:15.510 align:middle line:90% that's our car, that's ours. 00:01:15.510 --> 00:01:19.200 align:middle line:90% So I like that irony a lot. 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:22.440 align:middle line:84% And particularly, writing this book 00:01:22.440 --> 00:01:26.160 align:middle line:84% at the time when more and more things are getting privatized, 00:01:26.160 --> 00:01:30.300 align:middle line:84% like national train systems, or electricity grids, 00:01:30.300 --> 00:01:32.670 align:middle line:84% or these things that are one could 00:01:32.670 --> 00:01:34.980 align:middle line:84% argue extremely important to keep 00:01:34.980 --> 00:01:41.190 align:middle line:84% public to see this history of private property turning 00:01:41.190 --> 00:01:44.610 align:middle line:90% to public on the garden scheme. 00:01:44.610 --> 00:01:48.270 align:middle line:84% I'm going to start with a couple that work 00:01:48.270 --> 00:01:51.450 align:middle line:90% with definitions of the garden. 00:01:51.450 --> 00:02:00.310 align:middle line:90% 00:02:00.310 --> 00:02:04.540 align:middle line:84% A garden as between as the articulating tissue 00:02:04.540 --> 00:02:08.440 align:middle line:84% between city and ocean, between building and barren 00:02:08.440 --> 00:02:14.020 align:middle line:84% around a house, a jungle extends a magnet toward a jungle, 00:02:14.020 --> 00:02:18.640 align:middle line:84% a match struck, a tailored knuckle make it useful. 00:02:18.640 --> 00:02:21.850 align:middle line:84% Let it rain between the stilted and the flaming, 00:02:21.850 --> 00:02:24.190 align:middle line:84% the crack in the glaze that lets us 00:02:24.190 --> 00:02:27.100 align:middle line:90% flow out again across a plain. 00:02:27.100 --> 00:02:30.880 align:middle line:84% A garden marks that plane with the first principle. 00:02:30.880 --> 00:02:34.600 align:middle line:84% It paces off precise and hovers cartilage 00:02:34.600 --> 00:02:36.430 align:middle line:90% between road and home. 00:02:36.430 --> 00:02:39.400 align:middle line:84% A mental stable of dressage roses 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:44.830 align:middle line:84% hovers as a garden is routed half an idea, rending the Earth 00:02:44.830 --> 00:02:49.810 align:middle line:84% unstable, a flying machine with three wings, then five, 00:02:49.810 --> 00:02:54.280 align:middle line:84% then all over the sky in miniature vistas or garden 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:58.810 align:middle line:90% branches from a fist in bridges. 00:02:58.810 --> 00:03:02.170 align:middle line:90% A garden as a unit of measure. 00:03:02.170 --> 00:03:06.190 align:middle line:84% They adopted the tools of the sea, the astrolabe, 00:03:06.190 --> 00:03:10.750 align:middle line:84% as if the island never came, became the graphometer 00:03:10.750 --> 00:03:16.360 align:middle line:84% of Phillipe Danfrie, 1597, which allowed a line in the mind 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:19.990 align:middle line:84% to falter on a sum and become a mile, 00:03:19.990 --> 00:03:25.480 align:middle line:84% and aid encasing more precisely the edge cannot retain. 00:03:25.480 --> 00:03:27.880 align:middle line:90% Gardens lie beyond the eye. 00:03:27.880 --> 00:03:32.580 align:middle line:84% The rest is a long walk toward a ship in flames.