Quotes from Robert Harbison

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension.

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper -- maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all...They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can't see and spaces we can't cover.

Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing.