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bonsai, a conscious thought process must go into its artistic eye, horticultural and technical talent is
creation; artistic ability and sensitivity is required. wasted; without the ability to encourage the tree
Aesthetically, the beauty is in the nobility and to grow healthily and in the correct way, the artist
dignity with which a hundred-year-old pine tree holds cannot create a living masterpiece. For that is exactly
itself after a lifetime in a pot. It requires a level of what bonsai is, living art, changing not only with the
interaction that is not necessary to appreciate flashy seasons and time, but also with the artistic input
flowers or lush foliage of other plants in pots. from a succession of keepers. A tree that has been
alive for several hundred years has outlived many
With any form of human endeavor, particularly generations, been cared for by many different people,
with art and especially with bonsai, there will always and has built up a rich history of its own, with stories
be a sense of the artificial. Here lies a paradox: if the to tell in the fissures of the bark, the bends in the
ego is too strong, it becomes apparent in the design branches, and the unique character it possesses. It has
and display of the bonsai, resulting in something of not only a past but also a future, an art form that
obvious artifice and detracting from its natural transcends the individual and the immediate.
beauty. But something left to nature will, on the
small scale, not appear as beautiful as you might like.
This balance between man and nature is part of the
fascination of bonsai.

From a Western perspective, bonsai falls into many
categories. It is neither purely art, nor horticulture;
neither craft nor science. Bonsai requires an open
mind and the adaptation of all these aspects in
order to create beauty and
meaning. Without an

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