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Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in…
The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of…
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND…
Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime,…
Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in…
For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of…
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists…
I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the…
Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done…
Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your…

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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty.… — James Caan
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended… — Paulo Coelho
Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five. — Richard Ney
You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good… — Linus Pauling
The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth… — W. Somerset Maugham
Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others. — Amelia Barr
There are six senses: five are outer; they tell you about the world. I say something about the light; without eyes you… — Rajneesh
The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why… — Eriq La Salle
They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and… — Joe Pantoliano
I do not believe there is any such sixth sense. A man with a good sense of direction is, to me, quite… — Harold Gatty
Personally I like the slow burn; I don't think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that… — Oren Peli

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