"The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man creates around him an environment that is a projection into nature of his abstract ideas. It is only in the present century that the collective landscape has emerged as a social necessity. We are promoting a landscape art on a scale never conceived of in history."

-- Geoffrey Jellicoe

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“Larry had brought me blue jeans, a red polo shirt, jogging socks, my white Nikes, an extra cross from my suitcase, the silver knives, the Firestar complete with inner pants holster, and the Browning and its shoulder holster. He'd forgotten a bra, but hey, except for that it was perfect.”
“Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.”
“By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?”
“The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].”
“The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.”

Source : Rudolf Virchow (1958). “Disease, Life, and Man: Selected Essays”, p.69, Stanford University Press
“I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated.”
“A war doesnâ€™t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all thatâ€™s left is the brute, the creature that weâ€”you and I and others like usâ€”have brought up from the slime.”
“The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial.”

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