Arcades Quote by Peter Zumthor

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

— John Henry Newman

I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.

— Kehinde Wiley

What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out.…

— Helen Humphreys

I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and…

— Luis Barragan

The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place…

— Thomas Moore

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

— Beverley Nichols

[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.

— Diane Ackerman

What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set…

— Dorothy Gilman

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden

— Stephen Gardiner

I have learnt that gardens are like happiness: you cannot pursue them as an absolute thing or moment.

— Monty Don

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

— Peter Sloterdijk

A garden is mainly ...a space around which interests can be accumulated.

— Graham Stuart Thomas