Aggressiveness Quote by Luis Barragan

A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his…

— Roberto Burle Marx

Nature abhors a garden.

— Michael Pollan

“Although harmony with nature is of considerable importance in planning a garden, it must never be allowed to obscure what lies at the heart…

— Tash Aw

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

— Beverley Nichols

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

— Tim Smit

I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find…

— Julie Moir Messervy

Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s…

— Anonymous

“To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul.…

— William Lawson

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

— Russell Page

“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

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