I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California. — Rene Russo 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
All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about. — Ed McMahon 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
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
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
“. . . I had on . . . black jeggings under a fitted, sleeveless, flowered dress, so he could see my… — Eric Jerome Dickey 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
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
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
I think that's why Sturgill and I worked so well together. We came from similar backgrounds as far as a sense of… — Tyler Childers 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
[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
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
“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
“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
I can't stand it when restaurants don't have a sense of place in a city. When I'm in London, I want to… — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
“He is more rooted to the idea of home. He created this home...and established routines like watching the BBC and cooking barbecues… — Azar Nafisi 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
“At least the tree knows where it stands. It had a sense of place. It's fixed. Attached. And I am lost. I… — Annabel Pitcher 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
“My hand slid into his. The warmth of his hand surrounded mine and made me wish Carson Boulevard was miles more than… — Eric Jerome Dickey 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
![“[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on your front porch. Creating your name helps to build a sense of place within your neighborhood as well as pride in your accomplishments. By naming your farm you give it a life of…” quote by Greg Peterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b0/greg-peterson-47632_accomplishment_t-he-final-step-in-becoming-an-urban-far_1895064.jpg)
![“The [commercial] strip is marketed with the come-on of comfort (the Comfort Inn) and with the promise of a home on the road, a home where nobody knows your name and they're glad to see you as long as you can pay. The strip lives in the contradiction of the name Home Depot—domesticity on a…” quote by Howard Mansfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ce/howard-mansfield-57797_architecture_the-commercial-strip-is-marketed-with-th_835423.jpg)
