Nan Fairbrother

“The value of a landscape is not in its parts, but in the whole.”

“Man-made landscape is not necessarily bad, but it can be, and it is our business to see that it is good.”

“The right to be oneself is the most fundamental of all human rights.”

“The suburb is the greatest collective work of art of the new democracy.”

“The English landscape is a work of art, perhaps the greatest work of art in the country.”

“Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.”

“For a country is not an inanimate object to be taken to pieces and put together again, but a living organism to be understood and cherished.”

“A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.”

“We are all landscape-makers, and our work is never done.”

“A garden is a private world, a world of one's own.”

“To be a gardener is to be an optimist.”

“The pleasure of gardening is the pleasure of creation, of seeing things grow and flourish under your own hand.”

“The best gardens are a collaboration between man and nature.”