"Land is the secure ground of home, the……" — Stephen Gardiner
"Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown."
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47 Quotes by Stephen Gardiner
Stephen Gardiner has 47 quotes on this site.
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Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
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The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden
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The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
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What people want, above all, is order.
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Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.
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Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the…
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The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
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It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
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The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
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The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the…
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Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
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The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
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More Ground Quotes
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the…
— Aristotle
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
— Paul Auster
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a…
— Paul Auster
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms…
— Diane Ackerman
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to…
— Teresa of Avila
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise…
— Sai Baba
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The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree…
— Honore de Balzac
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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
— Douglas Adams
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In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
— Douglas Adams
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Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
— Drew Barrymore
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact…
— Joseph Addison
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