© Edna Walling Estate.

Source: Walling, Edna: "The Australian Roadside", P.43, Oxford University Press, 1952.

Men show their greatness more by circumnavigating flowers and mosses than they do by sailing over them with bulldozers.

In the past the term 'landscaping' has meant the tidying and 'dolling up' of the ground with specimen plants after an inordinate amount of crushing and destroying of natural beauty has taken place. It is the landscaper's job to conserve and to re-create the natural scene. This requires, before all else, a thorough knowledge of native plants, and a taste for Nature's informal way of doing things, as against man's assertive formalism.

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