"Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It……" — Stephen Gardiner
"Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world."
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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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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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Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
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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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