Composition Quote by Stephen Gardiner

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in…

— Tadao Ando

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

— Stephen Gardiner

“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

“Hokusai managed to integrate this into a Japanese vision of landscapes and nature prints which strike the Western viewer as utterly Japanese, and the…

— Matthi Forrer

“Japan is probably the best... example of the abandonment of an ancient and nature-oriented ethos for the spirit of progress, Western style.”

— John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment

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

— Tadao Ando

The Japanese people have a strong connection with nature and the ocean and a huge respect for them.

— Daniel Berehulak

In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than…

— John Fowles

Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an…

— Carl Jung

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

— Yasunari Kawabata

Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence…

— Daisaku Ikeda