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Brenda Colvin Quotes

1897–1981 United Kingdom

Brenda Colvin CBE (8 June 1897 – 27 January 1981) was a British landscape architect, garden designer, and author. She was appointed in 1973 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

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For most of the British Isles, tree cover is the normal condition. Any area below the five hundred metre contour that is left to itself and protected from vandalism, grazing or other biotic factors, will revert to forest unless exposed to high gales or salt spray.

Compare the appearance and social atmosphere of the average country village having a well-mixed community with those of a modern housing estate composed of all one type of house and garden. Monotony seems to make for squalor or genteel snobbery according to the class of house …

Land and Landscape (1948)

In our soft island climate too many evergreens become oppressive, and we need a very carefully balanced combination of evergreen and deciduous planting to give us the right degree of comfort, variety and satisfaction. But with a brighter light and greater extremes of temperature, a much higher proportion of evergreen is felt to be right.

Land and Landscape (1948)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Brenda Colvin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.