The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place. — Paul Strisik Copy Share Image
The tonal is the sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California. — Rene Russo Copy Share Image
I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship. — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building… — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears… — Janet Suzman Copy Share Image
A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The regional tags are often pejorative and dismissive. Don't think of place-bound stories, in other words, but of stories with a strong… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful life. We… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
People love authenticity in comedy and, coming from a region, you get a very strong sense of place. They can place you… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
“. . . I had on . . . black jeggings under a fitted, sleeveless, flowered dress, so he could see my… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
“If Caribbean writers have one single unifying theme, it is a strong sense of place, and of home. There is also -… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Paradise” is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet, tired as it is, it will… — Andrew Rayner Copy Share Image
To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“...he raised a hand to touch my face, a touch of promise, warm and sure, and as I struggled to smile back… — Susanna Kearsley Copy Share Image
It had come to me not in a sudden epiphany but with a gradual sureness, a sense of meaning like a sense… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Notice Paul’s advance in the grace of humility. Early in his ministry, he acknowledged: “I am the least of the apostles and… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Great travel writing consists of equal parts curiosity, vulnerability and vocabulary. It is not a terrain for know-it-alls or the indecisive. The… — Tom Miller Copy Share Image
If you live in the South, you are often a very short distance from a garden, or even a farm owned by… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
“They were loath to leave, for they felt, understandably enough, and rightly, I think, that as soon as they left their place,… — Brian Doyle Copy Share Image
“But happiness is a difficult thing-it is, as Aristotle posited in The Nicomachean Ethics, an activity, is is about good social behavior,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Here, her hand in mine was the one reality that severed us from the cold click-clack of Hell. I rubbed her hand… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
“Here the earth, as if to prove its immensity, empties itself. Gertrude Stein said: 'In the United States there is more space… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
“The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
“Genius loci cannot be designed to order. It has to evolve, to be allowed to hapen, to grow and change from the… — Edward Relph Copy Share Image
“It’s too late now. The game’s been won by companies who don’t two shits about community character or decent jobs. Congratufuckinglations, America!… — Finn Murphy Copy Share Image
“In the 1980s, worried professionals began to come together to compare notes and create visions of new ways of living that would… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about. — Ed McMahon Copy Share Image
I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me. — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image
