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> [Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-harbison/ruins-are-ideal-the-perceiver-s-attitudes-count-so-heavily-that-one/)

[Robert Harbison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-harbison/)

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## More by Robert Harbison

> [Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-harbison/ruins-are-ideal-the-perceiver-s-attitudes-count-so-heavily-that-one/)

[Robert Harbison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-harbison/)

> [Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-harbison/gardens-always-mean-something-else-man-absolutely-uses-one-thing-to/)

[Robert Harbison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-harbison/)

> [Travelers should only read after dark.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-harbison/travelers-should-only-read-after-dark/)

[Robert Harbison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-harbison/)

> [We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-harbison/we-need-two-homes-a-green-one-and-a-brown-one-a-grown-one-and-a-built/)

[Robert Harbison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-harbison/)

> [“To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper -- maps are the most condensed humanized spaces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-harbison/to-put-a-city-in-a-book-to-put-the-world-on-one-sheet-of-paper-maps/)

[Robert Harbison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-harbison/)

> [It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-harbison/it-is-people-who-live-by-the-rules-that-are-always-hoping-to-get-them/)

[Robert Harbison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-harbison/)

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