We live on this flying rock together. 
Our world is alive and connected
[waves crashing]
in beautiful and fragile webs that balance its natural order.
This thing we call nature, we're a part of it.
The hills are alive and the planet's changing every day.
How do we make a world to support each
other and sustain it for generations to come?
How do we make our communities
inclusive, healthy, and resilient?
As landscape architects, answering these questions is our passion and our art.
Being in nature restores us. Trees and plants inspire us with beauty.
They shade us. They clean the air we
breathe. They provide habitat.
So why are we so removed from living systems?
Because this used to be the dream.
But dreams change and so do places.
We design urban ecologies that delight and restore.
Public space connects us.
It's a part of daily civic life.
It's where we can take a break. It's where we gather.
So, why do we have so many unfriendly and hostile places?
Because sometimes places aren't
designed with our needs in mind.
When places don't meet our needs, we improvise.
But, we can do better.
We can make public places that are inviting, comfortable, and full of life.
We do research. We brainstorm, sketch. model, animate.
We work with stuff to see how it all fits together.
and this is what we make.
We can make places that support the
social and natural capital we've inherited.
We're always imagining tomorrow.
We're stewards of the earth. That's our job.
Because we live on a flying rock, together.
