Top 27 Quotes About Landscape Design
#1. A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.
Nan Fairbrother
#2. A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
Arthur Koestler
#3. The landscape had been so maimed by this new kind of warfare it was as if human architects of great genius had sat down to plan hell, since no two of them could agree on the design of heaven.
Christopher Buehlman
#4. Listen to your gut, her father was fond of saying, but make up your own damn mind.
Jeremy Robinson
#5. Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself.
Kathryn Gustafson
#6. Hold on to the darkness ... I will come looking for your light.
Dimitri Zaik
#7. I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping.
Jack Dangermond
#8. Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.
Tom Turner
#9. I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
Rachel Lambert Mellon
#10. Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.
Rebecca Solnit
#11. If I pray nicely, will the Father give me a new hand?
No. But the Warrior will give you courage, the Smith will lend you strength, and the Crone will give you wisdom.
It's a hand I need.
George R R Martin
#12. Buffalo is one of America's great designed cities. The interweaving of great architecture, landscape architecture and important historic sites makes Buffalo a must see destination for preservationists, designers, history buffs, and anyone wishing to see an inspiring example of American design.
Richard Moe
#13. The arts which we now call garden design and landscape design have three separate origins: sacred space, horticultural space and domestic space. Like Homo sapiens, the arts of garden and landscape design probably spread to Europe from West Asia.
Tom Turner
#14. Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.
Robert Kiyosaki
#15. Charles Jencks is the most notable landscape and garden designer to carry forward the 3500 BCE-1800CE landscape and garden design agenda.
Tom Turner
#16. Abstractionism exacerbated the problem but sustainability, if intelligently conceived, could heal the rift between garden, landscape and urban design. Absolute sustainability is not possible. But relative sustainability is a practical and desirable proposition.
Tom Turner
#17. We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.
John F. Carlsons
#18. Perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
Margaret Deland
#21. A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.
William Shenstone
#22. The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend.
John Hutton
#23. In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the birds, bask in the sun, run through the trees and laze beside cool waters.
Tom Turner
#24. Single-purposism, as we have seen, tends to create projects that harm the environment. Instead, we should design projects with as favourable an environmental impact as possible. This is the objective of environmental impact design.
Tom Turner
#25. Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.
Tom Turner
#26. I'm pointing out you've been missed. Being present is one hundred percent more meaningful than being there in spirit.
Penny Reid
#27. The greatest breakthrough's happens in the most difficult of times. Expect, believe and receive it.
Jeanette Coron