Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden designers to suggest an ancient and faraway natural landscape, and to express the fragility of existence as well as time's unstoppable advance.

Japanese gardens (日本庭園, nihon teien) are traditional gardens[1] whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetic and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape.

Assyrian Garden

And the perfect afternoon slowly ripened, slowly faded, slowly its petals closed

To augment collaborative human and ecosystem capacity to perceive and to wisely address complex local and global issues. In all deliberations, consider onto the 7th generation.

daily process of trying to explain and connect incoming ideas rather than rating them and arguing them changes your brain in helpful ways.

The excitement here is in building complexity, not reducing it

DR. TANA DINEEN