It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Time went on grey, uncloured, like a long journey where she sat unconscious as the landscape unrolled beside her.

The water glittered under the moon’s careful watch, and, in the distance, steeples cut stark black silhouettes into the landscape of the distant city.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another.

... And that has remained an important mental landscape for me, a reference point. It teaches me something — or tries to. People need things like that to go on living — mental landscapes that have meaning for then, even if they can't explain them in words. Part of why we live is to come up with explanations for these things. That what I think.

“Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another.”

“Many times, people don't contact a landscape architect until after the sidewalk is poured, the driveway is poured, the deck is built, and the landscaper comes in and says, 'Oh, wow. We could do this if this wasn't already done.' You should contact the designer early; they can turn that rectilinear straight walk into a nice curving path.”