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Cornelia Oberlander Quotes

1921–2021 Canada

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander CC OBC (20 June 1921 – 22 May 2021) was a German-born Canadian landscape architect. Her firm, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Landscape Architects, was founded in 1953, when she moved to Vancouver.

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You lose a lot of friends, I look upon this as a life cycle.

I work with a concept driven by the idea that people want to be surrounded by nature—it is in our genes.

We have, as I have pointed out again and again, a great gift of nature in our landscape.

The freedom to create, the freedom to think differently, was unlimited.

Landscape architects are a combination of artists, designers, choreographers and scientists; they must also be leaders, especially in dealing with the effects of climate change.

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