Environmental planning has been too scientific, too…

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

“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

“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

“Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens.”

— Tom Turner

“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

“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

“Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.”

— Tom Turner

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

— Tom Turner