quotations, sayings, proverbs……….Landscape Architecture

[Trace One]

“Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.” Aldo Leopold, “Thinking like a Mountain”

[Boilerplater]

“A great distance separating work and home creates intolerable rifts in people’s lives” -Christopher Alexander in The Timeless Way of Building”  Well, it was something like that.  Though that may be seen as more of a planning quote.  He has some other good ones, such as the need for south-facing outdoor spaces.

[Barbara Peterson]

“People -despite their artistic pretentions, their sophistication, and their many accomplishments – owe their existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.” (don’t know the author – my soils prof had this posted on the wall with many other soils-related quotes…thought this was really good/true and does apply to l.a.)

 

[Andrew Garulay, RLA]

“Green side up.” by every person who ever rolled a car window down when sod is being installed.

[Malgorzata Okolowicz (Gosia)]

“It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.” William H. Whyte

[Jon Quackenbush]

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. ~James Russell Lowell

[David J. Chirico]

“God made whales to be in the ocean, and God made camels to be in the desert, and He made man to be in the garden.  And everything we do should reflect that garden.”  Robert Marvin, FASLA

 

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”

“It is the time you have devoted to the rose that makes the rose so important.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

If you are using the internet, look up Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau quotes on nature.  There is a never ending supply.

[Jon Quackenbush]

I also add the entire Thanksgiving Address by theHaudenosaunee, and the Words that Come Before All Else.

[Tanya Olson]

One of my all-time favorites Henry!

[Zach Watson]

I really like this one:

 

“To make pearls, you’ve got to eat dirt.”

 

– Frank Chimero

[Alan Ray, RLA]

you want a proverb, so here’s a proverb, literally, “……he that is having dealings with the stupid ones will fare badly” proverbs 13:20

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