Park Design Quotes

Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to [create a park], will do it. They will not be forgotten. The trees and their lovers will sing their praises, and generations yet unborn will rise up and call them blessed.

Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar.

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.

The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.

If you take guys like Exequiel Bustillo, the architect who designed the early park infrastructure in Argentina, or the great American architects, these guys had a vision that thrust the national park idea into the public eye.