Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city. Lawrence Halprin Read Quote
The whole memorial is for different senses… seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it. Lawrence Halprin Read Quote
And I think one of the tasks that I always feel is how to get that vision out of them. Not exactly what they want, but what they want to accomplish for themselves or their community or their family. Lawrence Halprin Read Quote
And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense. Lawrence Halprin Read Quote
Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really – most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I’m good. Lawrence Halprin Read Quote
Because over and over again, the times that I’ve done really good things is because I’ve had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative. Lawrence Halprin Read Quote
I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you’ve ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things. Lawrence Halprin Read Quote
I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn’t think about this very much because I’m almost weeping when I think about it. Lawrence Halprin Read Quote
Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning – that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks. Lawrence Halprin Read Quote
