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Call it a garden state: a cross-species ecology of astounding beauty and completeness, never static, always in motion, progressive and prolific. I want to live there, and the world won’t survive much longer if we don’t. It hasn’t come to pass, this fertile revolution, and yet every time you look into a garden, the invitation is still there.

— Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing (Page 182)

I wanted to explore both types of garden stories: to count the cost of building paradise, but also to peer into the past and see if I could find versions of Eden that weren't founded on exclusion and exploitation, that might harbour ideas that could be vital in the difficult years ahead.

— Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing (Page 15)

I wanted to move into a different understanding of time: the kind of time that moves in spirals or cycles, pulsing between rot and fertility, light and darkness.

— Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing (Page 16)