Quote of the day
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
J. B. Jackson
Born: September 25, 1909
Died: August 28, 1996 (aged 86)
Bio: John Brinckerhoff "Brinck" Jackson, J. B. Jackson, was a writer, publisher, instructor, and sketch artist in landscape design. Herbert Muschamp, architecture critic of the New York Times, stated that J. B.
Known for:
- Discovering the vernacular landscape (1984)
- The necessity for ruins, and other topics (1980)
- A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time (1994)
- Landscape in sight
- A Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names (1987)