Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together. — Rebecca Solnit 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
The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to adapt to the West Coast. I lived eight years in New York before California and… — Rachel Morrison 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
“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
“I recall when this place was a good 'n honest community hall with a great sense of place and pride but now… — Jonathan Dunne 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
“I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
All great hotels should have stellar personalized service, a unique design that gives guests a sense of place, an excellent on-site restaurant,… — Ivanka Trump 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
Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place,"… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens… — Jeff Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“But the essence of a place, the part of it that picks you up and puts you down somewhere else, cannot be… — Frances Mayes 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
“I don't know why--there are no brick gables,' said Mrs. Prest, 'but this corner has seemed to me before more Dutch than… — Henry James 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
“You know what a sense of place is?” Cooper nodded. “It’s when the place you’re in feels like home. Where you’re at… — N.R. Walker 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on… — William Safire 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
“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
“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
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
“...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
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
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
