In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the birds, bask in the sun, run through the trees and laze beside cool waters. — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use of the word 'landscape' to mean 'a good place' - as the objective of the design process; a… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens.” — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 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
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
