Garden design Quote by Tom Turner

You can trace the entire history of Britain by looking at gardens.

— Monty Don

It does seem to me that the British in particular, British horticultural literature and television programmes, focus a huge amount on how we garden…

— Monty Don

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.

— William Howard Adams

“History doesn't remember gardens. … You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel embarrassed, though.…

— Andrew Ashling

I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

— Robert Wilson

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

— Tom Turner

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

Gardens are a form of autobiography.

— Sydney Eddison

“Gardens by their very nature are fragile beings that live in the two dimensions of time and care.”

— Joe Eck

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

— Clare Ansberry

“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

“Gardens were meant to be seen, smelled, walked through, grubbed in. A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the…

— Lois McMaster Bujold