All gardening is landscape painting.–Alexander Pope
Planting ground is painting a landscape with living thing.–Gertrude Jekyll
Once properly examined, Jekyll’s comparison looks to be both superficial and exaggerated.–David E. Cooper
The Japanese garden designer creates a theater for the wind to speak.–Ezra Pound
Any one can create a pretty little bamboo garden in the world. But I doubt that the gardener would succeed in incorporating the world in his bamboo garden.–Hermann Hesse
The life of a serious gardener is not one that, as it happens involves some gardening. Instead, it is one partly define by the structured, regular activities which are imposed once the decision to grow and to garden is made.–David E. Cooper
All the above from David E. Cooper’s A Philosophy of Gardens