Loren Eiseley's Prescriptive for Our Times

"Let it be admitted that the world’s problems are many and wearing, and that the whirlpool runs fast.  If we are to build a stable cult...

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'Lost' by David Wagoner...( a poem about forests and more)

  Lost  by David Wagoner photo by Jan Johnsen (NYBG - pinus bungeana) Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Where...

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Personal Space and Privacy - Japanese Vs. American

In my graduate Landscape Design Studio at Columbia University, I ask students to select an excerpt from the assigned book, 'The Hidden ...

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Flower Power - A Story about NYC and flowers by George Reis

George Reis  is a student of mine at Columbia University and he also works for NYU as their Landscape Supervisor (he prefers 'Head Gar...

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