English-gardens Quote by Tom Turner

The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the…

— Penelope Hobhouse

Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

— Thomas Browne

“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

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

— Peter Sloterdijk

“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

“Cemetaries in Bohemia are like gardens”

— Kundera Milan

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

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

— Monty Don

Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the…

— Richardson Wright

As for the meaning of gardens, particular gardens may have, of course, all sorts of different meanings - emotive, historical, emblematic, religious, commemorative, and…

— David E. Cooper

“If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection of nature.”

— Tom Turner

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

— Robert Wilson