Beauty of the wild : a life designing landscapes inspired by nature / Darrel Morrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrison, Darrel G., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morrison, Darrel G.

Landscape architects--United States--Biography.

Landscape architects.

Landscape architecture.

United States.

Landscape architecture--United States--Pictorial works.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

184 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst, MA : Library of American Landscape History, [2021]

Summary:

"In Beauty of the Wild, Darrel Morrison tells stories of people and places that have nourished his career as a teacher and a designer of nature-inspired landscapes. For more than six decades, Morrison has drawn inspiration from the varied landscapes of his life. For Morrison, however, there is also a deeper motivation for designing these landscapes. Strongly influenced by Aldo Leopold's observation that people start to appreciate nature initially through its pretty elements, he explains: 'From admiring individual plants within a big composition, you can move to starting to see patterns, and then this leads to starting to think about processes that have led to the patterns. It is a progression. You start to think more about why things are where they are, and how you can perpetuate that, and even deeper, you really start to think about protecting, preserving, and restoring these qualities in the landscapes we are responsible for.'"--Book jacket flap.

Contents:

1 Iowa Farm p. 7

2 Out of the Nest p. 21

3 Early Forays in Design p. 31

4 Merging Ecology with Design p. 39

5 Southern Odyssey p. 69

6 Expanding Horizons p. 97

7 New York City Decade p. 121

8 Restoring the Beauty of the Wild p. 143

9 Under a Montana Sky p. 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-171) and index.

ISBN:

1952620287

9781952620287

OCLC:

1200197551