Architecture Quote by James C. Snyder

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

“The groves were God's first temple”

— William Cullen Bryant

“when god creat the world,first he must think abour architects”

— Anonymous

The groves were God's first temples.

— William C. Bryant

“You have to believe in God to believe in trees.”

— R. A. Nelson

“Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.”

— David Mitchell

“The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.”

— Ishmael Beah

“Since the Goddess always has been honored in sacred groves, it is understandable that patriarchs, then as now, leaned toward deforestation.”

— Tom Robbins

“In the minds of the early Christians, the people—not the architecture—constituted a sacred space.”

— Frank Viola

“I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end up with a skyscraper made of wood.”

— Norman Mailer

The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used…

— Alice Walker

“All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.”

— Charles de Lint