May Quote by Deborah Tall

“In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.”

Deborah Tall

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The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.

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How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?

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I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.

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Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity

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“It's true--I can see it now--we are made of where we've come from, molded by landscape, weather, harbors, hunger, and war, as much as…

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Home is where we know - and are known - through accumulated experience.

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the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

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