Lawrence Halprin Quotes

• 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 it will feel natural.

  Lawrence Halprin

  Beauty, Garden, People

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• Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply with its ways... they serve as models of how things should be.

  Lawrence Halprin

  Way, Should, Models

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• 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 through it.

  Lawrence Halprin

  Memorial, Feelings, Different

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• Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.

  Lawrence Halprin

  Block, Nice, Reading

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• 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 do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things.

  Lawrence Halprin

  Mean, People, Clients

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• The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.

  Lawrence Halprin

  War, Creativity, Creative

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