Once Quote by Douglas Tompkins

“Contemporary attitudes toward urban parks fall into three levels of sophistication. The first, the most naive assumption, is that parks are just plots of…

— Galen Cranz

“If the park can be reduced to a single cultural indicator, it is that of optimism. Contained within the evolution of the park idea…

— Karen R. Jones & John Wills

“the presence of buildings around a park is important in design. They enclose it. They make a definite shape out of the space, so…

— Jane Jacobs

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

— Robert Smithson

I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and…

— Luis Barragan

“We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and the other sanctums of our…

— Edward Abbey

We try to respond as closely as we can to the nature of each city, to the traditions, to their expectations. I don't believe…

— Cesar Pelli

We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities…

— John Hench

The national park idea has been nurtured by each succeeding generation of Americans. Today, across our land, the National Park System represents America at…

— George B. Hartzog Jr

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it…

— Daniel Libeskind

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

— Renzo Piano

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that…

— Alain de Botton