Quotes About Garden Design

#1. The arts which we now call garden design and landscape design have three separate origins: sacred space, horticultural space and domestic space. Like Homo sapiens, the arts of garden and landscape design probably spread to Europe from West Asia.

Tom Turner

#2. Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

Tom Turner

#3. I would be researching seventeenth-century garden design or I would be doing something with Pepys, but I just kept using all of it to write about Margaret Cavendish. It took me a long time to realize that I just wanted to write a book about her. Years.

Danielle Dutton

#4. Charles Jencks is the most notable landscape and garden designer to carry forward the 3500 BCE-1800CE landscape and garden design agenda.

Tom Turner

#5. I've known Jennifer [Salke] for so long. Before I was a writer, I did garden design, and I designed Jennifer's garden, many years ago. I've known her for a really long time. So the pitch was not really about that.

Ryan T. Murphy

#6. From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings with paving, landform, water, vegetation and climate.

Tom Turner

#7. Garden design is all about concealment and surprise.

Andrew Crofts

#8. There are many possible approaches to Australian garden design, and they all reflect the designer's individual response to gardens. For my part, I love all things most gardeners abhor ... I like the whole thing to be as wild as possible, so that you have to fight your way through in places ...

Edna Walling

#9. In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.

Luis Barragan

#10. In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.

Jason Hill

#11. Others have falsely claimed to be the inspiration for Tom Booker in The Horse Whisperer. The one who truly inspired me was Buck Brannaman. His skill, understanding and his gentle, loving heart have parted the clouds for countless troubled creatures. Buck is the Zen master of the horse world.

Nicholas Evans

#12. 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 are produced with an awareness of the art, science, history, geography, philosophy, social habits and construction techniques of their period.

Tom Turner

#13. Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.

Christopher Alexander

#14. Abstractionism exacerbated the problem but sustainability, if intelligently conceived, could heal the rift between garden, landscape and urban design. Absolute sustainability is not possible. But relative sustainability is a practical and desirable proposition.

Tom Turner

#15. People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#16. A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

William Shenstone

#17. The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what you do from your life.

Dan Kiley

#18. When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet.

Jacques Wirtz

#19. Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature.

Penelope Hobhouse

#20. Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.

Russell Baker

#21. Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

Tom Turner

#22. Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle, and appropriated to the use and pleasure or man: it is, or ought to be, cultivated and enriched by art'.

Tom Turner

#23. I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real

Studs Terkel

#24. Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast extent upon gardens derive from sun, earth, art, water, history, civilization, family, anything.

Tom Turner

#25. A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.

Joseph Beach

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

Stephen Gardiner

#27. Gossip is conversation about people.

Gore Vidal

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

Tom Turner

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

Tom Turner

#30. The meaning of yoga is connection of mind, body and spirit. If you have a bad telecommunication system, your body gets sick. Yoga helps fix that.

Bikram Choudhury

#31. Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself.

Kathryn Gustafson

#32. I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants.

Mark Pesce

#33. In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.

William Shenstone

#34. Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.

Tom Turner

#35. Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.

Thomas Haden Church

#36. Authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be nurtured.

Walter Isaacson

#37. There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.

Tom Turner

#38. You wagered you could indulge passion and receive trust and honor in return, and lost.

Julie Anne Long