--- title: "1 Scientific Man Quotes By Tom Turner" description: "1 Scientific Man quotes by Tom Turner. Plus more from Tom Turner and more Scientific Man sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c87/tom-turner-21624_environmental-planni_environmental-planning-has-been-too-scie_1731194.jpg" --- > [“Environmental planning has been too scientific, too man-centred, too past-fixated and two-dimensional.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-turner/environmental-planning-has-been-too-scientific-too-man-centred-too/) [Tom Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-turner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c87/tom-turner-21624_environmental-planni_environmental-planning-has-been-too-scie_1731194.jpg) ## More by Tom Turner > [From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-turner/from-50-centuries-we-can-learn-about-the-close-relationship-between/) [Tom Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-turner/abstractionism-exacerbated-the-problem-but-sustainability-if/) [Tom Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-turner/the-world-is-moving-into-a-phase-when-landscape-design-may-well-be/) [Tom Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-turner/) > [“Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-turner/water-will-increasingly-be-detained-stored-and-then-recycled-or/) [Tom Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-turner/london-is-the-world-s-garden-capital-as-los-angeles-is-its-film/) [Tom Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-turner/one-cannot-analyse-the-character-of-european-gardens-without-looking/) [Tom Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-turner/) > [“Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-turner/landscape-design-theory-has-been-rotting-away-peacefully-like-a/) [Tom Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-turner/the-tragedy-of-feminine-design-is-that-it-receives-so-little-official/) [Tom Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-turner/the-arts-which-we-now-call-garden-design-and-landscape-design-have/) [Tom Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-turner/landscape-planners-will-have-the-opportunity-to-make-sculptured/) [Tom Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-turner/in-town-and-in-country-there-must-be-landscapes-where-we-can-walk-in/) [Tom Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-turner/to-look-after-a-medieval-estate-one-required-a-map-an-indexed-account/) [Tom Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-turner/humphry-repton-the-leading-garden-theorist-of-the-nineteenth-century/) [Tom Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-turner/there-is-much-to-learn-about-what-could-happen-in-the-gardens-of-the/) [Tom Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-turner/) > [Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-turner/modernism-as-a-label-has-currency-in-the-arts-architecture-planning/) [Tom Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-turner/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/scientific-man/tom-turner/#itemlist", "name": "1 Scientific Man Quotes By Tom Turner", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Environmental planning has been too scientific, too man-centred, too past-fixated and two-dimensional.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tom Turner" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-turner/environmental-planning-has-been-too-scientific-too-man-centred-too/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c87/tom-turner-21624_environmental-planni_environmental-planning-has-been-too-scie_1731194.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c87/tom-turner-21624_environmental-planni_environmental-planning-has-been-too-scie_1731194.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c87/tom-turner-21624_environmental-planni_environmental-planning-has-been-too-scie_1731194.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Environmental planning has been too scientific, too man-centred, too past-fixated and two-dimensional.” — Tom Turner", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/scientific-man/tom-turner/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/scientific-man/tom-turner/", "name": "Scientific Man Quotes by Tom Turner", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/scientific-man/tom-turner/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c87/tom-turner-21624_environmental-planni_environmental-planning-has-been-too-scie_1731194.jpg" }, "description": "1 Scientific Man quotes by Tom Turner. 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