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
“The operation would be in a week...I didn't know if I would survive. How I longed to go back to reading! There… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“That’s different. The French know that the English are superior to them and they’re appropriate about it. The Eastern Europeans on the… — Colin Browne 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
Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of… — Paul Tsongas 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
Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together. — Rebecca Solnit 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
“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
The tonal is the sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It must have been marvelous when the century was young and things impressed themselves in such blatant vivid brilliance that an approaching… — Eve Babitz 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
“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
“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
“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 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
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
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
“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
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
I'm one who needs to be in the space [for] a sense of place and order. It's crucial. — Sue Tompkins 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
[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the… — Greg Peterson Copy Share Image
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