Architecture Quote by Gustav Stickley

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the bare beauty…

— Gustav Stickley

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

— Tadao Ando

The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful - just a…

— Jane Jacobs

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common…

— Carlo Collodi

“On a small square, wood is being cut for the city school. Cords of healthy, crisp timber are piled high and melt slowly, one…

— Bruno Schulz

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

— Gustav Stickley

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

— Ezra Pound

“One can trace the relics of this former happiness in the trim shapes of the buildings, the occasional graceful churches, and the evidences of…

— H.P. Lovecraft

So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece of architecture,…

— John Ruskin

“trees [-] Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a ‘person-of-the-arts,’ limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the wind’s music, the…

— A. A. Attanasio

“Outlines of dead logs I hauled away remained impressed on the damp earth, scarring the ground with their funereal shapes.”

— Tash Aw

“The sawdust flew. A slightly sweet fragrance floated in the immediate area. It was a sweet but subtle aroma, neither the scent of pine…

— Xiao Hong