39 Quotes by Tom Turner

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

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'.

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

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.

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

Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady routes carved through the undergrowth. Roofs will become mountain tops. People will become ants.

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

I can honestly say that's not the case.

I think its important that kids have homework about every night,