Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle, and appropriate…

- Tom Turner

Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to resolve all confli…

- 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.

- Tom Turner

The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized by men, enco…

- Tom Turner

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 s…

- Tom Turner

In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.

- Tom Turner

From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of bui…

- Tom Turner

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

- Tom Turner

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

- Tom Turner