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Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.

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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
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J. B. Jackson

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:
  1. Discovering the vernacular landscape (1984)
  2. The necessity for ruins, and other topics (1980)
  3. A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time (1994)
  4. Landscape in sight
  5. A Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names (1987)

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