AH
2
0: Water and landscape architecture
Kelly Shannon and Marianne Skjulhaug
Professor Kelly Shannon and Associate
Professor Marianne Skjulhaug, Head of
Institute of Urbanism and Landscape
“Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move
millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization,
people have moved to settle close to it. People move when
there is too little of it. People move when there is too much
of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance
about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and
every day, need it.”
mikhail gorbachev
,
President of Green Cross International quoted in Peter Swanson’s Water:
The Drop of Life, 2001 BBC News, “Water arithmetic ‘doesn’t add up’,”
13 March 2000
“Water will be the oil of the 21st century.”
boutros boutros ghali
Former United Nations Secretary General | 2003
“Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than wa-
ter. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can
withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the
flexible overcomes the adamant, the yielding overcomes the
forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.“
lao tzu
Chinese philosopher | 600-531 BC
“The next world war will be about water.”
ismail serageldin
the former World Bank vice president for
Environmental Affairs, quoted in Marq de Villiers’ Water |2000
