"The first purpose of a garden is to be a place of quiet beauty such as will give delight to the eye and repose and refreshment to the mind."
Gertrude Jekyll

"The land we live on has been formed by the interaction between natural factors and human settlement. Our task is to continue the process, allowing the balance and imagination of what has gone before to inspire fresh design in the evolving pattern - buildings and cultivation fitting together with the underlying dynamics of the place."
Landscape architects Kim Wilkie and Associates