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It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.

Ian McHarg

We are the bullies of the earth: strong, foul, coarse, greedy, careless, indifferent to others, laying waste as we proceed, leaving wounds, welts, lesions, suppurations on the earth body, increasingly engulfed by our own ordure and, finally, abysmally ignorant of the way the world works, crowing our superiority over all life.

Ian McHarg

Ian McHarg

Ian McHarg

Born: November 20, 1920

Died: March 5, 2001 (aged 80)

Bio: Ian L. McHarg was a Scottish landscape architect and writer on regional planning using natural systems. He was the founder of the department of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.

Known for:

Design with nature (1969)
A quest for life (1996)

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