"Here's a live cam link to the Childrens Pool, the seal cove.. http://www.wanconservancy.org/seal_media2.htm"

"I second the La Jolla Cove, the childrens pool - esp. if you have kids,  its a great spot, and you can walk all along the coast, over to the sea lions and up the hills along the coast behind the rich people's houses  - also can easily…"

"We read Aldo Leopold in graduate school at Penn, have always loved him.  ("only a mountain knows the true meaning of the wolfs's cry," loosely paraphrased!) And I agree with you about the shock of what people don't…"

"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun  is a shrub."

"I think Spurlock Porier is one of the best in the area, I think. James Barnett is always advertising, don't know why, but that does not seem great to me."

"Very restrained and subtle for a Van Valkenburg project. I like it. The building, however, looks like a 1980's public school."

"You can also read about it on the MVVA website: http://www.mvvainc.com/project.php?id=14 They note that an "organic maintenance program" will be put in place. I'd be curious to read more about that specifically. Since it can be…"

"http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2010327228_bushlibrary22.html An article with a photo of the model."

"To me, landscape is not art, but more craft. The path essentially just means circulation, and again, to me, that should be dominant over style or other decorative elements. If you like to think of your landscapes like paintings, Jason, good for you.…"

"Actually, while thinking about this, I remembered that Ian McHarg would say that the first step is to determine what sort of ecological system your landscape is before you start working with it, with the purpose of that thought process being that…"

"The New York project is just a dream, a newspaper article, no more, in response to Hurricane Sandy - that is all I know. The Berkeley professor, I would not like to use the name, if you don't mind.  both answers characterize our responses…"

"One of the professors at Berkeley charged in in the face of governmental incompetence, and mapped  the new shoreline and floodplains, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Our part is also to advocate for environmental solutions, and to design them…"

"It seems to me, Andrew,  you are taking 'structure' literally, as buildings perhaps, with the three dimensionality the most important thing? and I stand by it - outdoor rooms are just another type of path.  perhaps it is…"