arden”, “park” and “wood” are thus synonimous in our times with the ideas of beauty, naturalness and health. 

Tornsten O. Enge

ardens likewise are a product of the yearning which grows from the humiliations and dashed hopes of daily life, and are thus the reflection and counter-image of a more beautiful world. Designed to bridge borders, gardens shed light on the historical reality of their creation and creators. Like all Utopias, they criticize a concrete political situation, social relationships, constrains and shortcomings.

Carl F. Schroer

he garden is a ground plot for the mind. 

Thomas Hill, 1577

garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul.

Sadi

Gardens
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here be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.

John D. Sedding, Garden-Craft, 1893

ardens are not created or made, they unfold, spiraling open like the silk petals of an evening primrose flower to reveal the ground plot of the mind and heart of the gardener and the good earth.

Wendy Johnson, Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, 2000

itting in a garden and doing nothing is high art everywhere. 

Michael P. Garofalo, Pulling Onions: The Maxims of Gardening

onnection with gardens, even small ones, even potted plants,  can become windows to the inner life. The simple act of  stopping and looking at the beauty around us can be prayer. 

Patricia R. Barrett, The Sacred Garden, 2001

hat, if anything, do the infinity of different traditional and individual ideas of a garden have in common? They vary so much in purpose, in size, in style and content that not even flowers, or even plants at all, can be said to be essential. In the last analysis there is only one common factor between all gardens, and this is the control of nature by man. Control, that is, for aesthetic reasons... The essence is control. Without constant watchful care a garden - any garden - rapidly returns to the state of the country all around it. 

Hugh Johnson, The Principles of Gardening, 1979, p. 8.

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