Musing from Miller Studio...
"Green" is the word of the moment. This small bit of language, which has been kicking around in English for something like nine hundred years, is enjoying unprecedented popularity in the early twenty-first century.
Advertising copy writers seem to be especially fond of "Green".
The title of this meandering - and occasionally updated - posting implies a "green" that is somewhat different from: the appropriate application of environmentally responsible practices - one of the ten current definitions for the word that can be found in Webster's dictionary.
This effort will attempt a focus on concepts such as nature, wilderness, and the garden (slippery terms one and all) and explore how they are blended with human need, emotions, and history through the practice of landscape architecture. Aesthetics and utility will probably have to be worked in somewhere as well.
Is this ambitious stuff? Perhaps, but it is really nothing new. In the first century BC, the Roman orator and philosopher Cicero observed that "We sow corn, we plant trees, we fertilize the soil by irrigation, and we dam the rivers and direct them where we want. In short, by means of our hands we try to create as it were a second nature within the natural world." So, tune in from time to time and feel free to drop us a note and let us know your thoughts.
Advertising copy writers seem to be especially fond of "Green".
The title of this meandering - and occasionally updated - posting implies a "green" that is somewhat different from: the appropriate application of environmentally responsible practices - one of the ten current definitions for the word that can be found in Webster's dictionary.
This effort will attempt a focus on concepts such as nature, wilderness, and the garden (slippery terms one and all) and explore how they are blended with human need, emotions, and history through the practice of landscape architecture. Aesthetics and utility will probably have to be worked in somewhere as well.
Is this ambitious stuff? Perhaps, but it is really nothing new. In the first century BC, the Roman orator and philosopher Cicero observed that "We sow corn, we plant trees, we fertilize the soil by irrigation, and we dam the rivers and direct them where we want. In short, by means of our hands we try to create as it were a second nature within the natural world." So, tune in from time to time and feel free to drop us a note and let us know your thoughts.
