Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens. — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“British garden history is best understood as a small incident in the histories of ideas, design and technology.” — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts. — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.” — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle,… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“The arts which we now call garden design and landscape design have three separate origins: sacred space, horticultural space and domestic space.… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
Having lasted for 4,000 years, the use of nature's materials to express ideas about nature may be expected to continue. The best… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings… — Tom Turner Copy Share
“Abstractionism exacerbated the problem but sustainability, if intelligently conceived, could heal the rift between garden, landscape and urban design. Absolute sustainability is not possible.… — Tom Turner Copy Share
“The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man creates around… — Tom Turner Copy Share
“Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens.” — Tom Turner Copy Share
“London is the world’s Garden Capital - as Los Angeles is its film capital, Paris its fashion capital and Bogata its narcotics capital.” — Tom Turner Copy Share
“One cannot analyse the character of European gardens without looking beyond the Mediterranean. This is because horticulture, palace life and city-building developed in the… — Tom Turner Copy Share
“Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.” — Tom Turner Copy Share
The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized by men,… — Tom Turner Copy Share
“The arts which we now call garden design and landscape design have three separate origins: sacred space, horticultural space and domestic space. Like Homo… — Tom Turner Copy Share
Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady… — Tom Turner Copy Share
In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the… — Tom Turner Copy Share
“To look after a medieval estate, one required a map, an indexed account book and an abacus. For its time, this was a highly… — Tom Turner Copy Share
Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle, and appropriated… — Tom Turner Copy Share
There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past. — Tom Turner Copy Share
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere. — Tom Turner Copy Share
