Planting Design: Connecting People and Place

Landscape designers have long understood the use of plants to provide beauty, aesthetic pleasure and visual stimulation while supporting a broad range of functional goals. However, the potential for plants in the landscape to elicit human involvement and provide mental stimulation and restoration is much less well understood.&#12288; This book meshes the art of planting design with an understanding of how humans respond to natural environments. Beginning with an understanding of human needs, preferences and responses to landscape, the author interprets the ways in which an understanding of the human-environment interaction can inform planting design. Many of the principles and techniques that may be used in planting design are beautifully illustrated in full colour with examples by leading landscape architects and designers from the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Asia, including: <ul> <li>Andrea Cochran, Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, San Francisco, CA</li> <li>Design Workshop Inc.</li> <li>Richard Hartlage, Land Morphology, Seattle, WA</li> <li>Shunmyo Masuno, Japan Landscape Consultants Ltd., Yokohama</li> <li>Piet Oudolf, Hummelo, The Netherlands</li> <li>Melody Redekop, Vancouver</li> <li>Christine Ten Eyck, Ten Eyck Landscape Architects Inc., Austin, TX</li> <li>Kongjian Yu, Turenscape Ltd., Beijing.</li> </ul> The book stimulates thought, provides new direction and assists the reader to find their own unique design voice. Because there are many valid processes and intentions for landscape design, the book is not intended to be overly prescriptive. Rather than presenting a strict design method and accompanying set of rules, Planting Design provides information, insight and inspiration as a basis for developing the individual designer's own expression in this most challenging of art forms.

Arts & Photography

Mooney, Patrick

Architecture

Routledge

Landscape designers have long understood the use of plants to provide beauty, aesthetic pleasure and visual stimulation while supporting a broad range of functional goals. However, the potential for plants in the landscape to elicit human involvement and provide mental stimulation and restoration is much less well understood. This book meshes the art of planting design with an understanding of how humans respond to natural environments. Beginning with an understanding of human needs, preferences and responses to landscape, the author interprets the ways in which an understanding of the human-environment interaction can inform planting design. Many of the principles and techniques that may be used in planting design are beautifully illustrated in full colour with examples by leading landscape architects and designers from the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Asia, including: <ul>
<li>Andrea Cochran, Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, San Francisco, CA</li> <li>Design Workshop Inc.</li> <li>Richard Hartlage, Land Morphology, Seattle, WA</li> <li>Shunmyo Masuno, Japan Landscape Consultants Ltd., Yokohama</li> <li>Piet Oudolf, Hummelo, The Netherlands</li> <li>Melody Redekop, Vancouver</li> <li>Christine Ten Eyck, Ten Eyck Landscape Architects Inc., Austin, TX</li> <li>Kongjian Yu, Turenscape Ltd., Beijing.</li> </ul> The book stimulates thought, provides new direction and assists the reader to find their own unique design voice. Because there are many valid processes and intentions for landscape design, the book is not intended to be overly prescriptive. Rather than presenting a strict design method and accompanying set of rules, Planting Design provides information, insight and inspiration as a basis for developing the individual designer’s own expression in this most challenging of art forms.

Religionless Spirituality claims that neither religion nor materialistic science satisfies the ache of the human heart for meaning or significance. We have experienced wonderful progress through the advances of science. Unfortunately, our achievements in many respects have become our atrocities. Since the Enlightenment, mechanistic science has insisted that it is only through reason that we can objectively prove anything, thereby excluding all subjective experience. This is the predominant paradigm by which capitalism and materialism prevail. Modern society has almost completely adopted this model. Because of this near total embrace, the environment of the human habitat is becoming more and more threatened. Through this model we infer that infinite growth can fit into a finite world. The ego is catered to as a consequence, but our spirit grows ever more impoverished. What use is verification by the human eye if the subjective experience of sight is excluded? Science explains but tells us nothing of experience. We need a spirit of transcendence, something that lies beyond matter, to explain the human construct. This is where spirituality enters. Religion, for its own ends, has politicized spirituality and co-opted for power and control. Individually, spirituality calls us to reclaim the birthright of God's divinity alive within each of us. True spirituality calls us to look to the power within. True spirituality belongs to each individual. We must adopt a new paradigm, decontaminate ourselves from organized religion, and see our own individual divinity.

Religionless Spirituality: Paragidm for a Global Spirituality

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Authorhouse Uk

AuthorHouseUK

The West has become an expert in invasion and war--not because of threats to the home front but to exploit natural resources that do not belong to us. The time has come for individual Christians to fire their consciences instead of guns. A passion of conscience is the only rational way to subvert our national differences.Patrick Mooney explores how the spirituality of nonviolent resistance can bring us to a better place in this book. Arguing that violence has not made us happy, he shares insights such as:* Christ told us, "You find by giving away." We become more by giving ourselves to one another.* We in the West have huge obligations toward poorer nations because of all the goods we have stolen through imperialism.* We are taught that satiation of the ego is our only purpose. Contrary to natural law, the profit motive has become the driving force of our lives.The crisis facing our planet stems from our failure to differentiate between religion and spirituality on the one hand, and religion and politics on the other. Social inequality arises exactly because we have failed to balance the relationship between materiality and spirituality.

Dare to Be Spiritual

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Sadly, western civilization has seemingly lost its sense of Christian identity and heritage. In recent decades, humanity has become so indoctrinated by the atheistic paradigm that our matrix is controlled by corporate greed and competition rather than cooperation and compassion.While reflecting on a world that is ever changing, Patrick Mooney shares essays that explore the effect of atheism on a variety of topics that include sexuality, the most binary aspect of humanity that is love, the courage of conviction, endowments and the elite as it relates to education, the reality of death, an inner-city Dublin schoolmistress, and much more. Throughout his writings, Mooney reminds us that although the modern world has brought us to a moral impasse, it is possible to adopt the spirituality that Christ preached, embrace our destiny to be spiritual, and refine our higher selves to search for and find meaning and divine purpose in our lives.The Actualization of Self-Transcendence is a collection of personal essays that shares a priest's candid reflections on the effects of the atheistic paradigm on the modern world.

The Actualization of Self Transcendence

Worship & Devotion

Down on the Lake

Children's Books

Animals

Sleepy Lion Limited

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