Tom Turner Quotes
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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,…
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Having lasted for 4,000 years, the use of nature's materials to express ideas about nature may be expected to continue. The best garden designs are…
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There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.
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Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady routes…
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In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.
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Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.
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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, encourage…
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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…
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Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle, and appropriated to…
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Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.
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From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings with…
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Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.
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