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Beauty & Bounty

“I cannot see cultivation of the earth and cultivation of the spirit as separate at all. The idea of stewardship and care over land is one of the most important portals to happiness. What I want to do with our work is to care with intent.”

Thomas Woltz is a landscape architect, architect and principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW). NBW has designed hundreds of parks, farms, residential gardens and public memorials and has a list of awards a few kilometres long. We are meeting at Orongo Station, a vast 3000-acre property on New Zealand’s rugged east coast. Thomas and his team have carefully stewarded this landscape

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