Quote of the day
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Andrew Jackson Downing
Born: October 31, 1815
Died: July 28, 1852 (aged 36)
Bio: Andrew Jackson Downing was an American landscape designer, horticulturalist, and writer, a prominent advocate of the Gothic Revival in the United States, and editor of The Horticulturist magazine. Downing is considered to be a founder of American landscape architecture.
Known for:
- The architecture of country houses (1850)
- Victorian cottage residences
- Rural essays