Architecture Quote by Pete Munro

The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride...

— Pete Munro

Today's gardens have become far more than things of beauty. And today's generation is fast finding out that backyards can be an extremely resourceful…

— Jamie Durie

A backyard for me is more being with the people around you, your friends. I think that's what defines your home; not your actual,…

— Patrick Watson

My granddad had a 1,500-acre hobby farm that he had built up from scratch in Western Australia, so my siblings and I spent our…

— Tim Minchin

There are many possible approaches to Australian garden design, and they all reflect the designer's individual response to gardens. For my part, I love…

— Edna Walling

My playground growing up was the fields and forests.

— Vic Reeves

“shed in the backyard and a small garden”

— Patrick Balester

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

— John Betjeman

When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

— Randy Houser

“The average yard is both an ecological and agricultural desert. The prime offender is short-mown grass, which offers no habitat and nothing for people…

— Toby Hemenway

Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.

— Thomas Muster

That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.

— Yvonne Strahovski