Bricks Quote by Alan Moore

One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

History is often best told from the ground, out of a car window or in someone's kitchen, not through some huge production mechanism or…

— Josh Fox

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

— Anthony Trollope

I can't see much purpose in archaeology unless you can find out the narrative about that place, or even realise that nobody actually knows…

— Tony Robinson

“When we change the shape of the Land, we alter the contents and contexts of our collective, familial, and personal memories. Yet, stories can…

— Ari Berk

I love a place packed with history.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Ruins. Places built up by man, painstaking, sometimes over centuries. Layer upon layer of human experience, history, and art, represented in stone and wood…

— wildbow

It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all…

— Karl Pilkington

“Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. The houses…

— Willa Cather

I like places that have history in the sense of - you feel responsible to it.

— Chris Stapleton

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

— Bill Bryson