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"Conservation communities - those that maintain balance between physical building and natural environment - are still rarities."
Tom Forman (Tryon Farm architect)

"We looked at how water entered the land, how it flowed, rather than inflicting designer ponds on the place. This was a dairy farm so there are paths that the cattle took to graze in the fields. Those paths are now car paths."
Ed Noonan (Tryon Farm architect, co-developer)

"Friendly settlements of simple houses surrounded by big stretches of woods, dunes and open prairie - this is the dream."
Eve Noonan (Tryon Farm
co-developer)