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Love Every Leaf is the biography of one of the greatest contributors to landscape architecture, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, the 2006 recipient of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architecture’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Written by children’s author, Kathy Stinson, this biography tells Cornelia’s remarkable life’s story complete with photographs and plans for the imaginative playgrounds and the innovative museum and embassy grounds she has created around the world, and for green rooftops, her latest passion.

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, who has been a landscape architect for more than sixty years, considers her profession “the art of the possible.” The description also applies to the very way this remarkable 86-year-old has lived her life. Playing in her grandmother’s garden as a child, Cornelia absorbed the beauty and importance of the natural world and by the age of eleven had decided that she would become a landscape architect. Leaving her native Germany in the wake of Hitler’s persecution of the Jews, the teenaged Cornelia was transplanted in America, where she could pursue her dream in safety, although not without having to struggle to carve out a place for herself in the male-dominated world of her chosen profession. Readers will find inspiration in Cornelia’s love for the natural world and the respect and concern she shows for our increasingly fragile environment.

Originally appeared in International Federation of Landscape Architects News, May 2008

KATHY STINSON, Canadian Author of Books for Young People

Love Every Leaf, The Life of Landscape Architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander

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