"; r_text[1] = ""For all their powerful reputation for peace and quiet, repose and contemplation, gardens have always been battlegrounds or at least proving grounds, where the rivalries of art and nature, of town and country, of social classes, and of sexes of past and present are acted out."—John Dixon Hunt
"; r_text[2] = ""We come to look upon an old garden as a sort of repository of old secrets; warmed by the sunshine of humanity; watered from the secret spring of human joy and sorrow."—John Dando Sedding
"; r_text[3] = ""The traveller returning from Italy, with his eyes and imagination full of the ineffable Italian garden-magic, knows that he has been under its spell and that it is more potent, more enduring, more intoxicating to every sense than the most elaborate effects of modern horticulture."—Edith Wharton
"; r_text[4] = ""Within this dell’s green anodyne–Where drowsy falls the thrush’s song–Where flowery cups spill opiate wine–There dwells a slug four inches long.–"—H.J.Massingham
"; r_text[5] = ""The best way to get real enjoyment out of the garden is to put on a wide straw hat, hold a little trowel in one hand and a cool drink in the other."—Charles Barr
"; r_text[6] = ""Water is the eye of a landscape."—Anonymous
"; var i = Math.floor((r_text.length)*Math.random())"Gardening and architecture owe as much to the nobility and to men of fortune as to the professors. "—Horace Walpole