In California and Morocco, and in so much of the world, this first means responsibility with water. Our designed environments can reflect our sense of aesthetics, and our sense of aesthetics and pride can be derived from our natural environment. We can still dream and recreate fantasies within the limits of our natural rainfall in symbolic ways.

Commercial landscapes nearly always used to require turf. The new(er) paradigm now makes use of a wide variety of colors and textures of mulches requiring no water while helping to retain moisture and reduce soil erosion.