Culture Quote by David E. Cooper

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

— Larry Dossey

A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends ...

— Tim Smit

In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so…

— David E. Cooper

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

— John Henry Newman

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

— Beverley Nichols

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are…

— Joseph Campbell

Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty.…

— Thomas Moore

It takes time and devotion to learn the language of color and lighting in the garden. Your tastes are sure to change over time,…

— Christopher McDowell

I just feel like the garden is a place where you can explore humanity quite deeply.

— Lee Isaac Chung

Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.

— Peter Sloterdijk

As for the meaning of gardens, particular gardens may have, of course, all sorts of different meanings - emotive, historical, emblematic, religious, commemorative, and…

— David E. Cooper

“If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection of nature.”

— Tom Turner