Century Quote by Mark Mason

Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field…

— Mark Mason

Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an…

— Mark Mason

A lot of people don't think much about what land surveyors do. In a nutshell, we are the interpreters and providers of landmarks and…

— Mark Mason

I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape…

— Penelope Lively

I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape…

— Penelope Lively

Land surveying has been a positive influence on my life, and I'd encourage anyone who hasn't considered it to give it a chance!

— Mark Mason

There's a popular misconception that property boundaries are based on coordinates that surveyors can simply "walk to" with our instruments. The reality is that,…

— Mark Mason

Some land surveyors delve into land development advocacy, working with local government on behalf of clients in order to facilitate progress on a project.…

— Mark Mason

Land surveyors start as employees, and move up to partnership in a firm or to ownership of their own enterprise if they wish. Some…

— Mark Mason

“Below the roads run the surveyors' lines which squared off the wilderness, and not only made it ready for sale but constructed a shape…

— Andro Linklater

I think that people can get caught up in the "gee-whiz" technology of surveying, which is constantly changing, and forget about the legal aspects…

— Mark Mason

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

— Antoine Predock