Nan Fairbrother
Nan Fairbrother
Nan Fairbrotherwas an English writer and lecturer on landscape and land use. She was a Member of the UK Institute of Landscape Architects, now the Landscape Institute. Her brotherFairbrother) was also a landscape architect. Fairbrother was born in Coventry, England, and attended the University of London, graduating with honours in English. After graduation, she worked as a hospital physiotherapist, before settling in London. In 1939 she married William McKenzie, a physician. Their son, Dan McKenzie, was a Cambridge geophysicist instrumental...
NationalityEnglish
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love inspirational affection
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do....
people envy company
We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company ...
understanding should offers
Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.
knows
We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?
children race people
children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.
people tragedy emotion
It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.
summer being-in-love love-is
Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.
choices design ordinary
A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.
mankind satisfied creatures
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
beauty real views
As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.
educational book garden
... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.
gratitude cheer men
A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.
children hands trouble
children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.
dream needs youth
happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.