Ian McHarg Quotes

United Kingdom, Architect
November 20, 1920 – March, 5, 2001.

Ian L. McHarg (20 November 1920 – 5 March 2001) was a Scottish landscape architect and writer on regional planning using natural systems. He was the founder of the department of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. His 1969 book Design with Nature pioneered the concept of ecological planning. It continues to be one of the most widely celebrated books on landscape architecture and land-use planning. In this book, he set forth the basic concepts that were to develop later in geographic information systems.

Let us green the earth, restore the earth, heal the earth.

Ian McHarg
- Earth
- Green
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

Ian McHarg
- Earth

It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.

Ian McHarg
- God
- Nature
- Attention
The most important issue of the 21st century will be the condition of the global environment.

Ian McHarg
- Important
- Environment
We are the bullies of the earth: strong, foul, coarse, greedy, careless, indifferent to others, laying waste as we proceed, leaving wounds, welts, lesions, suppurations on the earth body, increasingly engulfed by our own ordure and, finally, abysmally ignorant of the way the world works, crowing our superiority over all life.

Ian McHarg
- Life
- World
- Strong