All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about. — Ed McMahon 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
“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
I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both.… — Junot Diaz 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
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
There are so many people who have a training in art history; and if you've spent time looking at old art, you… — Laura Belem Copy Share Image
Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“I envy the table its scars, the scorch marks caused by the hot bread tins. I envy its calm sense of time,… — Joanne Harris 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
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
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
“..and how sometimes when she can’t get her clients talking about what happened over there she’ll get a map of the country,… — Melina Marchetta 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
At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of… — Erik Larson 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
“At Bramasole, the first secret spot that draws me outside is a stump and board bench on a high terrace overlooking the… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that… — Jonathan Hale 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
“The [commercial] strip is marketed with the come-on of comfort (the Comfort Inn) and with the promise of a home on the… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
“The Morning After Coffee Bar was different from the mass-produced coffee bars that had mushroomed on every street almost everywhere, a development… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
To me, the contemporary novel suffers from a lack of sense of place - or spirit of place, if you will. It's… — Lawrence Osborne 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
