Tom Turner

From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition…

— Tom Turner

“Abstractionism exacerbated the problem but sustainability, if intelligently conceived, could heal the rift between garden, landscape and urban design. Absolute sustainability is…

— Tom Turner

“The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Tom Turner

“The arts which we now call garden design and landscape design have three separate origins: sacred space, horticultural space and domestic space.…

— Tom Turner

Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will…

— Tom Turner

In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen…

— Tom Turner

“To look after a medieval estate, one required a map, an indexed account book and an abacus. For its time, this was…

— Tom Turner

Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle,…

— Tom Turner

There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the…

— Tom Turner

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

— Tom Turner

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

— Tom Turner

Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.

— Tom Turner

“Single-purposism, as we have seen, tends to create projects that harm the environment. Instead, we should design projects with as favourable an…

— Tom Turner

The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use…

— Tom Turner

“Will the roofs of new buildings be vegetated? If not, why not?”

— Tom Turner

“Environmental planning has been too scientific, too man-centred, too past-fixated and two-dimensional.”

— Tom Turner

“Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast…

— Tom Turner

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

Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to…

— Tom Turner

“British garden history is best understood as a small incident in the histories of ideas, design and technology.”

— Tom Turner