Of Beauty

In Beauty of the Wild, Darrel Morrison shares six decades of experience as a teacher and a designer of nature-inspired landscapes. In native plant gardens at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, New York Botanical Garden, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden, as well as at the Storm King Art Center, Morrison’s ever-evolving compositions were designed to reintroduce ecological diversity, natural processes, and naturally occurring patterns-the ＂beauty of the wild＂-into the landscape.

Darrel Morrison is a renowned landscape designer and educator whose ecology-based approach has influenced generations of practitioners. He has taught ecology-based landscape design at University of Wisconsin-Madison (1969-1983) and University of Georgia (1983-2005). Morrison lived and worked in New York City from 2005 until 2015, and now lives in Madison, where he is an Honorary Faculty Associate in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin