To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

“It was something this city needed. Most people here like their landscapes. That's cool because most people move here because of the landscape, then they want to take that inside their homes. I wanted to create a place for artists who do something else.”

This is important to writing. . . that is, it is important to my own writing. This. . . is landscape! Mine. This dirt came from the prairie where I was a child. I played in it, dug in it, planted in it, and walked over it. It is where I began. And all my writing begins with a landscape such as this. A place.

I would describe the distinction between city and landscape like this: cities tend to excite and agitate me; they make me feel big or small, self-confident, proud, curious, excited, tense, annoyed... or they intimidate me. But the landscape, if I give it the chance, offers me freedom and serenity. Nature has a different sense of time. Time is big in the landscape while in the city it is condensed, just like the city's space.

We tend to think of landscapes as affecting us most strongly when we are in them or on them, when they offer us the primary sensations of touch and sight. But there are also the landscapes we bear with us in absentia, those places that live on in memory long after they have withdrawn in actuality, and such places -- retreated to most often when we are most remote from them -- are among the most important landscapes we possess.

“We believe that, similar to trends in other sectors of the construction market, design-build will play an increasingly important role in the landscape industry in the next several years, which is why we decided to move forward with the acquisitions of these two respected landscape architecture firms.”

“The concrete for the ramps has been poured to provide an ADA-compliant slope and the landscaping will be done next.”

“It's astonishing how (the grant program) has changed the landscape of exploratory research for geothermal development.”

“We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it”

“They look like landscaping scenes. When kids aren't on them, they look like the architecture of the park.”