Garden Design Quotes:

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

- Russell Page

topic: Heart, Garden, Green, Horticulture, Garden Design

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

- Louise Wilder

source: Louise Beebe Wilder (1918). “Colour in My Garden”

topic: Apology, Artist, Men, Garden Design

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

- Walter Scott

source: "Periodical Criticism".

topic: Art, Children, Garden, Spring Garden, Spring Gardening

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

- Claude Monet

source: Claude Monet (1985). “Monet: a retrospective”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Nature Beauty, Spiritual Nature

There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter can frame his picture, a composer can notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move.

- Mirabel Osler

topic: Moving, Garden, Stones, Engrave, Garden Design

The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design, the garden itself also reflects a deeper set of cultural meanings and traditions. Whereas the English garden seeks to make only an aesthetic impression, the Japanese garden is both aesthetic and reflective. The most basic element of any Japanese garden design comes from the realization that every detail has a significant value.

- E. J. W. Barber

topic: Garden, House, Design, Japanese Gardens, Architectural Design

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

topic: Fighting, Garden, Design, Garden Design

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

- Tom Turner

topic: Garden, Design, Theory, Garden Design

The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use of the word 'landscape' to mean 'a good place' - as the objective of the design process; a comprehensive approach to open space planning involving city parks, greenways and nature outside towns; a planning theory about the contextualisation of development projects; the principle that development plans should be adapted to their landscape context.

- Tom Turner

topic: Mean, Garden, Cities, Landscape Architecture, City Parks

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

topic: Art, Garden, Water, Close Relationship, Vegetation

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

topic: Garden, Years, Long, Garden Design

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

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Book, Writing, Garden, Garden Design

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

topic: Art, Philosophy, Garden, Garden Design