Backbone Quote by Edwin Lutyens

A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.

— Edwin Lutyens

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

— Tom Turner

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

— Tom Turner

“Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.”

— Tom Turner

A garden always has a point.

— Elizabeth Hoyt

“A garden is like the self. It has so many layers and winding paths, real or imagined, that it can never be known, completely,…

— Anne Raver

“Cities and governments are but the flowering head of a plant whose stalk is the commonalty, and it is the commonalty whose roots are…

— Steven Erikson

The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and nature -…

— David E. Cooper

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

— Tom Turner

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

— Francis Cabot Lowell

“Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.”

— Clare Ansberry

Dont design yourself like a garden that everyone can walk, design yourself like a sky that everyone desires to reach.

— RBUENDIA