{"id":8325,"date":"2012-06-20T14:59:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T14:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=8325"},"modified":"2012-06-20T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T14:59:34","slug":"ten-thoughts-about-garden-design-and-landscape-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/ten-thoughts-about-garden-design-and-landscape-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten thoughts about garden design and landscape architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"775\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E3rOvrDMtoY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This chair is near the spot where it was washed ashore, perhaps from a shipwreck, leading to ten thoughts about garden and landscape design:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Gardens are enclosed. Landscapes are un-enclosed.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Designers use the materials of <em>nature<\/em> to express ideas about <em>Nature<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Gardens make us think, as well as making us comfortable.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Poetry and painting normally begin on a white surface.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Garden and landscape design begin on a contextual surface.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Land existed before history and land will exist after history.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Landscape architects and garden designers think about what happened in the past, about the near future and about the far-distant future.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Garden and landscape design are four-dimensional arts.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Yet the best designs have a fifth, spiritual, dimension. They embody unprovable beliefs.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0One gardens in time, with time and for a long time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This chair is near the spot where it was washed ashore, perhaps from a shipwreck, leading to ten thoughts about garden and landscape design: Gardens are enclosed. Landscapes are un-enclosed. Designers use the materials of nature to express ideas about Nature. Gardens make us think, as well as making us comfortable. Poetry and painting normally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}