Bio

The Gaia Hypothesis proposes that the Earth is a living breathing organism capable of sustaining life through a complex system of self-regulation. She lives and breathes in perpetual motion where the actions of all things construct a balanced harmony and where everything is unified in a circle of life that is at once beautiful and tragic - a unification of complimentary opposites. Life is full of them. As aesthetic beings we prefer beauty over ugliness, order over chaos, love over hate. However, the rules state we need one to complete our understanding of the other. Without chaos we would not know order. Nature's beauty lies in her ability to organize in an unplanned randomness. The human propensity for order often prefers the complimentary opposite - planned organization, the height of which was reached in the 17th century French formal gardens. It is between these complimentary opposites that lies the balance - planned disorganization. This effort to blend the natural with the human-made allows for the human propensity for beauty and order to blend with the natural intelligence for plant selection and placement thus allowing landscapes to interact naturally while providing an aesthetic quality that enlightens and inspires much the same way nature herself does. It is not our goal here at Ratio 5:8 Design Landscape division to control nature but rather learn from her and be one with her as we cultivate our inately and uniquely God-given ability for creativity. And in case you were wondering, yes, I did place God in this rather scientific equation. What else could possibly attribute to the brilliance and beauty that is life. Remember, we need the ugliness to know the beauty. Be grateful we have the ability to do something about it.