Neeco

“The New Nature that we are designing in our cities is not a copy of old romanticized images or idealized perceptions of nature past; the New Nature is truly new. We call this New Nature City Nature. It is man-made nature to correct man-made errors. It is a New Nature designed equally on the basis of deep biological, anthropological, sociological and ecological knowledge and on a strong artistic knowledge, experience and approach. It is a New Nature optimized to solve today's hardest urban challenges while creating genuine quality of life for humans. It is a New Nature that is not too concerned with how it looks but rather how it feels and how it functions. (10)”
― B. Cannon Ivers, 250 Things a Landscape Architect Should Know

“The build environment is the paradigm of structure, of rational order, of stable form; the grown environment is the paradigm of system, of the order of nature, of ever-changing matter. The built and the grown environments are complementary in that they are at once both interdependent and incomparable. (1)”
― B. Cannon Ivers, 250 Things a Landscape Architect Should Know

“Sure enough, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has a botanical aspect. Actions such as planting, uprooting, preferring one species over the other and even nature-protection laws reflect the conflict and impact on it. Perhaps the most notable of these actions is the massive foresting of lands nationalised by the state of Israel in the 1950s, previously belonging to Palestinians who fled or were forced out of their villages during the 1948 war. This transformed large parts of the country into coniferous forests, comprising mainly pines. The main objectives of this foresting action were political-tactical (obtaining control over the land) and economic (forestry as a work-fare programme for incoming Jewish immigrants). At the same time it was an act of erasing the previous landscape, with all its cultural meaning, and introducing a new monoculture landscape that was mean to represent the "melting pot" of the newly founded state. (34)”
― B. Cannon Ivers, 250 Things a Landscape Architect Should Know

“One kind of life-alienating communication is the use of moralistic judgments that imply wrongness or badness on the part of people who don’t act in harmony with our values. Such judgments are reflected in language such as, “The problem with you is that you’re too selfish.” “She’s lazy.” “They’re prejudiced.” “It’s inappropriate.” Blame, insults, put-downs, labels, criticism, comparisons, and diagnoses are all forms of judgment. (15)

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It is my belief that all such analyses of other human beings are tragic expressions of our own values and needs. They are tragic because, when we express our values and needs in this form, we increase defensiveness and resistance to them among the very people whose behaviors are of concern to us. Or, if they do agree to act in harmony with our values because they concur with our analysis of their wrongness, they will likely do so out of fear, guilt, or shame. (16)”
― Marshall Rosenberg