British Gardens Quotes

“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, British Gardens: History, philosophy and design

“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, British Gardens: History, philosophy and design

“Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens.”
― Tom Turner, British Gardens: History, philosophy and design

“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, British Gardens: History, philosophy and design

“Charles Jencks is the most notable landscape and garden designer to carry forward the 3500 BCE-1800CE landscape and garden design agenda.”
― Tom Turner, British Gardens: History, philosophy and design

“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, British Gardens: History, philosophy and design

“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, British Gardens: History, philosophy and design

“British garden history is best understood as a small incident in the histories of ideas, design and technology.”
― Tom Turner, British Gardens: History, philosophy and design