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
ProfessionWriter
attitude mind leisure
leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
knows
We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?
understanding should offers
Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.
stories plot momentum
Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.
fighting friendly way
perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly ...
gratitude cheer men
A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.
garden would-be plant
If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.
sadness home loss
when people go away, or when we leave the places we love, or something we treasure goes out of our life - I have always noticed that before it happens - this leaving, this parting - when we think about it beforehand we are overwhelmed with sadness at the loss to come. ... the most unbearable sense of loss, the worst homesickness of all, so I have found, is this loss and sickness we feel beforehand, before we ever leave home.
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.
mankind satisfied creatures
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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.