Landscape Garden/the Great Age of The English Garden

Famous quotes containing the words landscape, garden, age and/or english:

    “The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls, and the stars begin to flicker in the sky,”
    —Mitchell Parish (1901–1993)

    “Old age is an insult. It’s like being smacked.”
    —Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)

    “I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave, or my clay mix with the earth of that country. I believe the thought would drive me mad on my death-bed could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcass back to her soil. I would not even feed her worms if I could help it.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)