The language of landscape is our native language.
A person literate in landscape sees significance where an illiterate person notes nothing. Past and future fires, floods, landslides, welcome or warning are visible to those who can read them in tree and slope, boundary and gate.
When we shape landscape, we express meaning.
Landscape is not just "like language," it is a language. And landscape architects use it.
- Ecologist Anne Whiston Spirn in The Language of Landscape (Yale University Press, 1998)
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