“How do you architect a landscape?” she asked. “It’s not like you can be all, Hey, put another mountain over there or Can we take the sky down a couple of inches?” “You might be surprised. I had a lake moved once.” “How?” “No idea. That’s for the hydrological engineers to sort out. I just pointed at it, and said, ‘I think this is blocking access to the deer park.’” “I can’t tell if that makes you cool and powerful or…a bit of a middle manager?” “Honestly,” he told her with a ruefulness she found endearing, “neither can I.”
