Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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)