When it comes to landscaping nature has a huge advantage of human beings. Endless amounts of time, wind, rain and cycles of growth and decay work effortlessly to create breathtaking vistas that cannot be matched by human endeavour. Even the most exquisite ancient gardens cannot rival natural landscapes but they do represent the best things that human beings can do. As such, beautiful gardens and landscapes are of particular pleasure and admiration.

Artificial landscapes do have an advantage over natural landscapes in that they represent human achievements. In fact the skill, vision and aesthetic taste represented in a landscape may represent very fine achievements. A man who started as an ordinary gardener during the eighteenth century rose to be a national figure whose gardens bring great pleasure to visitors to this day, long after he has passed on.

A big difference between human beings and animals that are lower on the evolutionary scale is that human beings alter their environment to suit their purposes. Tigers in India are threatened with extinction because they are dependent on a habitat that they are unable to change. Human beings scramble to create conditions that will enable other species that are threatened with extinction to survive. The people who do this are motivated by aesthetic appreciation or intellectually motivated emotions. These may be regarded as being among the higher attributes of humanity. Landscaping fits in there too.

Even within human society differences are noticeable. In decaying areas where quality of life is poor the surrounds will be in poor repair. Residents appear to accept dirt, decay and disorder. They step delicately around sewage and rotting garbage. In prosperous neighbourhoods attention is paid to clean and well designed landscapes.

Because landscaping has such a long and distinguished history in human affairs there is no shortage information on the subject. Seminal books have recently been published or re-printed because there is keen interest in the subject.

There is also a multitude of courses available to teach this most satisfying of occupations in a detailed and structured way. Many people have the enthusiasm and interest, and they are the people who will benefit most from theoretical instruction that will assist them in expressing their natural talents in practical ways.

The principles of aesthetics apply to landscaping. As an artist chooses a focal point on his canvas and arranges details that align with it, or as a writer chooses a thesis and composes words in harmony with it, so a landscaper strives for unity, harmony and beauty. His artistic and practical skills are directed to that.

Just as a film is the outcome of teamwork, so an artificial landscape will be the product of a team. Laborers, horticulturalists, carpenters, masons, painters and electricians may all be required and directed by the garden architect. But the team worker who can be most difficult because he, and possibly she, holds the purse strings and has the potential to destroy the best efforts of all. It is fairly obvious that the best thing for an owner to do is employ a professional and allow him to get on with his job, but as is common knowledge, people are not always reasonable.

In addition to being a team work, Landscaping Thornhill has to deal with weather, the changing seasons and the endless cycle of growth and decay. If a landscaper can create a fundamental design that will accommodate constant change and be a work of art for all seasons he may well be satisfied.

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