Spirit of place Quote by Lawrence Durrell

“Now a new era had dawned upon the world, which quivered with the impact of tremendous forces, of discoveries and inventions. Man rode upon…

— Robert Nathan

“It is very currently suggested that the modern man is the heir of all the ages, that he has got the good out of…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The man had no portraits or photographs, but he had slowly surrounded himself with mementos of a fantastic past. Each little item, by the…

— William Ritter

“He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I had always…

— Jack London

“He wasn’t a religious man but a vision of what Paradise might be came to him, a windowed room afloat on an endless sea,…

— Michael Crummey

“He had, for a few days, forgotten that wherever he traveled, he must take his own familiar self along, and that that self would…

— Sinclair Lewis

“people had true knowledge of the world perhaps they would not take up arms and so perhaps he could be an aggregator of information…

— Paulette Jiles

“Therefore a man should examine for himself the great piles of superimposed strata, and watch the rivulets bringing down mud, and the waves wearing…

— Charles Darwin

“If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental carpet. No…

— Shilpa Agarwal

“What strange and thoughtless creatures we were, back in those days. We would go up to the rooftops to smoke, Wurth and I; and…

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

“He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt…

— Isabel Allende

“There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of…

— Abe Kōbō