Landscape Design Quotes

“In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the birds, bask in the sun, run through the trees and laze beside cool waters.”
― Tom Turner, Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design

“Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.”
― Tom Turner, City as Landscape

“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

“Many great landacape gardeners have gone down in history and been remembered in a very solid way by the magnificent parks and gardens that they designed with almost god-like power and foresight, thinking nothing of making lakes and shifting hills and planting woodlands to enable future generations to appreciate the sublime beauty of wild Nature transformed by Man. There had been Capability Brown, Sagacity Smith, Intuition De Vere Slade-Gore...

In Ank-Morpork, there was Bloody Stupid Johnson.”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms