Books Quote by Rebecca Solnit

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

— Paul Kingsnorth

“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

“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,…

— Michael Pollan

“The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a…

— Paul Theroux

I see myself as a writer who happens to garden.

— Monty Don

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to…

— Michael Pollan

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other,…

— Haruki Murakami

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

“Mountains & low hills would enclose us, & gardens & woods & green spaces would surround us - And each pretty house & its…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Is it too ingenuous to imagine that anything can be left to say about a garden? Garden literature, descriptive, reminiscent, and technical, has blossomed…

— Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

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

— Tom Turner

Unlike a novel, where you expect a different kind of arc that leaves us with a somber sense of resolution, I think a story…

— Laura van den Berg