If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty… — Anatoli Boukreev Copy Share Image
Photography is all about capturing a mood, a feeling. I feel a special connection with nature, often very powerful. This late afternoon… — Peter Lik Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A full blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
“Western cathedrals and abbeys…through soaring Gothic architecture, [give] us at floor level a sense of belonging within (but unable at the moment… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more.… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than… — Michael Persinger Copy Share Image
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence.… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad.… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
For we have come by different ways to this place... I can tell by the natural ease with which you wear fine… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep… — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán Copy Share Image
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