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Stephen Gardiner has 49 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
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The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden
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The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
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What people want, above all, is order.
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Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.
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Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
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The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
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It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
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The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
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Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
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The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
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Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
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This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's…
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I…
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The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though…
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I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.
— George S. Kaufman
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People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.
— Stephen Gardiner
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With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand…
— Henry Miller
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Diplomats willing to sit for an interview usually prefer the terra firma of CNN over the whoopee cushion of Comedy Central.
— Kevin Bleyer
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