Garden design Quote by Tom Turner

“British garden history is best understood as a small incident in the histories of ideas, design and technology.”

— Tom Turner

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

— Tom Turner

Having lasted for 4,000 years, the use of nature's materials to express ideas about nature may be expected to continue. The best garden designs…

— Tom Turner

“The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man creates around…

— Tom Turner

Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or…

— Vita Sackville-West

From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings…

— Tom Turner

Gardens are a form of autobiography.

— Sydney Eddison

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

“The arts which we now call garden design and landscape design have three separate origins: sacred space, horticultural space and domestic space. Like Homo…

— Tom Turner

“Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast extent upon…

— Tom Turner

In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature…

— Luis Barragan

“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