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- Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has… — Arne Jacobsen
- His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but… — John Milton
- I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at… — Unknown Author
- Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product. — Rabindranath Tagore
- Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage… — Walter Benjamin
- The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it… — Glenn Gould
- No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and… — John Muir
- A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like… — John Muir
- You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the… — Jeanette Winterson
- It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble,… — Nikolai Gogol
- Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling… — Bohumil Hrabal
- The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus… — Stanley Hauerwas