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231: “Privileging sensory experience over interpretation offers the landscape architect ever-new inputs for visions of each site’s potential” SORRY? PRIVILEGING SENSORY-? YOU GUYS HEARING THIS? THATS SO FRICKIN COOL!!! IMAGINE THAT AS A PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION!!!!

“Over a period of revival, the native ecology of the sites, which is truest to their nature, is restored.” Again, agree to disagree. Seeing historical nature as something that is the “truest” representation of the land is a dangerously uninformed notion. Landscapes evolve, with or without our efforts; trying desperately to adhere to a lost landscape may prove a waste of effort in the context of evolving land

218: “[deforested areas] become inert sites with no ecological value or benefit.” Agree to disagree. Every piece of land has ecological value and benefit, even though it may not seem like it to us. Even the most anthropologically damaged pieces of land are still hubs of potential. Future homes for the more daring enterprising species. We’ve gotta be wary of viewing ecology as something that is ever stagnant.

198: Komorebi: “When you walk outside you may experience beautiful moments of light and shadow. This can be like the atmosphere of a room whose curtains softly allow light to ‘pour’ inside: many small fragments of sunlight filtered by tree leaves and plants swaying in the wind – this is komorebi. When these fragments are projected onto the ground, komorebi results in gentle spaces of light and shade.”

106-110: Marcial Jesus did NOT get the memo about this book’s Vibe wowza. The book is all romantic poetry of landscape design in nature and then all of the sudden, almost right in the middle, enter Jesus with the YOU GOTTA BE BETTER STRONGER SMARTER THAN THE COMPETITION language. Like good god man please take a seat we were just chatting about pretty trees can you maybe chill.

163: Policy is Design by Other Means “As Michael Sorkin showed in local codes, bringing creativity – even humor – to the banal documents of government can mitigate the limitations of both the drawings of designers and the texts of planners.” THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT!! HUMOR IN ACADEMIA AND POLITICS! HECK YEA!