Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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)