The symbiosis achieved here recovers my self from a day of exploitation at the hands of the bustling city. In order for humans to live in balance with nature, they must access this genius and allow it to infuse decisions they make when altering a site. The genius of this place was human. Tom Stoppard's Arcadia uses this term to refer to the hermit as the genius of Sidley Park. While such usage functions literally to represent individual brilliance, it more subtly guides the reader to the playwright s symbolic use of the designed landscape as setting and actor.
Landscape architecture ornaments nature with aesthetic design and visa versa.
The genius resides in the false hermitage, the most ridiculous of the design's rusticated props. Landscape architecture is not always linked to environmentalism, yet it certainly possesses a clear environmental ethic. In fact, achieving the genius of the place reveals an awareness of humans' ecological interconnection to all else. Most architecture can not worry about environmentalism as it goes about filling space. However, more than any other form of spatial design, landscape architecture pursues a natur0al aesthetic as it seeks to use organic forms to make outdoor spaces at once pleasing and useful.