Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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)