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Ultimately, the role (perhaps the goal, and certainly the hope) for the profession of landscape architecture is to make meaningful and lasting contributions to the quality of the shared landscape. If designers can do this with each project they undertake, no matter how small or how large, and these contributions accumulate over time, the beneficial influences of landscape design will be expressed in the nature and quality of human life.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
—Mark Twain
Spartans did not ask “how many are the enemy,” but “where are they?”
—Agis, King of Sparta, 427–401 BC
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Murphy, M.D. (2016). Conclusion. In: Landscape Architecture Theory. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-751-3_11
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