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Spaces Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic…
- Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of…
- In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and…
- I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth…
- Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors...disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between…
- An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student…
More Spaces Quotes
- In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops. — Giorgio Armani
- Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up… — Jean Baudrillard
- Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining… — Edwin Markham
- One thing we've learned this summer is that a house is not an end in itself, any more than "home" is just… — Katrina Kenison
- What we call reality is a subset of accessible spaces. — Luis Villalobos
- Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful… — Joseph Addison
- It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there.… — John Henry Jowett
- The truth us that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but other methods… — Paul Carus