Nature Quote by Roland Barthes

“The Tower is not a usual spectacle; to enter the Tower, to scale it, to run around its courses, is, in a manner both…

— Roland Barthes

“The Tower is not a sacred monument, and no taboo can forbid a commonplace life to develop there, but there can be no question,…

— Roland Barthes

“The tower was battered, a relic of a distant past. Yet there was a dignity to it, a grace that belied the pockmarked walls…

— Paul Fraser Collard

“We were passing the city cemetery. Adjoining it was a field occupied only by a couple of amiable and moth-eaten horses, and a grey…

— Isobelle Carmody

“Opposite is the old bell-tower of a church, all the more moving for being unfinished. What beauty there is in interrupted towers, which continue…

— Georges Rodenbach

“In order to satisfy this great oneiric function, which makes it not a kind of total monument, the [Eiffel] Tower must escape reason. The…

— Roland Barthes

“The purity of the message makes it even more remarkable. It’s easy to tell someone about the Leaning Tower. Much harder to tell them…

— Seth Godin

“...That, however, was not what our scholar was concerned to prove; for he maintained that the Great Wall alone would provide for the first…

— Franz Kafka

Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and…

— Bernard Arnault

“A skyscraper is the incarnate rebellion against the supposedly unattainable; against the mystery of altitude, against the otherworldliness of the cerulean.”

— Joseph Roth