"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."

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Source : Nan Fairbrother (1974). “The nature of landscape design: as an art form, a craft, a social necessity”, Alfred A. Knopf

Nan Fairbrother

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“I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.”
“I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are.”
“I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort that there is nothing left for my work. I handle telephone calls so badly that after a while the switchboard operator refuses to connect me. So I had better say to myself, Go ahead and polish the silverware beautifully, then lay it out ready on the sideboard and be done with it. Because I polish it in my mind all day longâ€”this is what torments me (and doesn't clean the silver).”
“One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.”

Source : "Already Dead". Book by Charlie Huston, 2005.
“Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions.”
“Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.”
“I think what we need is to understand each other much more, especially with the whole world right now.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!”

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