Lawrence Halprin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.
-- Lawrence Halprin

#Beauty #Garden #People
Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.
-- Lawrence Halprin

#Block #Nice #Reading
The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.
-- Lawrence Halprin

#War #Creativity #Creative
The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it.
-- Lawrence Halprin

#Memorial #Feelings #Different
I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things.
-- Lawrence Halprin

#Mean #People #Clients
Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply with its ways... they serve as models of how things should be.
-- Lawrence Halprin

#Way #Should #Models

I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.
I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Lawrence Halprin famous quotes

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