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.
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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
The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.
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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.
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One is, that they will feel about you that you're going to make something wonderful for them. And they help you by expressing themselves. Not telling you how to do it, but encouraging you and accepting your vision and working with you on that kind of a level.
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Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.
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