Lawrence Halprin Quotes

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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…
• Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be…
• The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.
• The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived…
• 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…
• And I think one of the tasks that I always feel is how to get that vision out of them. Not exactly what they want,…
• And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to…
• 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…
• One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to…
• Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt.…
• Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a…
• I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I…
• Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like.
• 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…
• Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's…

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