Marguerite Gardiner Quotes

“We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.”

“Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.”

“Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.”

“The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.”

“The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.”

“Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.”

“Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.”

“Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.”

“Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.”

“Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.”