Quotations About
Place That Offer Hope
photo by Amy Lenzo
“Ecologist and biologists know that systems achieve stability and health through diversity, not uniformity. Ideologies take the opposite view.”
~ Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest
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A landscape is a series of named locales, a set of relational
places linked by paths, movements, and narratives. It is
a cultural code for living…
~Christopher Tillev, A Phenomenology
of Landscape
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“The idea of a sacred place…is apparently as old as life
itself.”
~Joseph Campbell, The Mythic Image
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“The holes and tunnels of an old warren become smooth, reassuring
and comfortable with use. There are no snags or rough corners…All
the faults have been put right and everything in use is of
proved value.”
~Richard Adams, Watership Down
“There is always in life a place to leave and a new place
to find, and in between a zone of hesitation and uncertainty
tinged with more or less intense anxiety.”
~Paul Tournier,
A Place for You
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“[The Timeless Way of Building ] is a process which brings
order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained,
but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let
it.”
~Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building
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“People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and
cruel…but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills
the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.” ~Eudora
Welty
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“Everything is somewhere and in place.”
~Aristotle
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“Places remember events.”
~James Joyce, Notebook
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“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they
have to take you in.”
~Robert Frost
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“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once
again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”
~Abraham Lincoln
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“A nation of migrants always, for all their wanderings,
remembers what every immigrant never forgets: that you may
leave home but if you forget where home is, you are truly
lost a without hope.”
~A. Bartlett Giamatti, Take Time for
Paradise
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“Heaven and earth determine the places. The holy sages
fulfill the possibilities of the places. Through the thoughts
of men and the thoughts of spirits, the people are enabled to participate in the possibilities.”
~The I Ching
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“Great achievements, such as Angkor Wat or Chartres Cathedral
give us a sense of the possible.”
~Thomas Bender
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“Being place-based has never meant that one didn’t travel
from time to time, going on trading ventures or taking livestock
to summer grazing. Such working wanderers have always known
they had a home-base on earth, and could prove it at any
campfire or party by singing their own songs. The heart of
a place is the home and the heart of the home is the fire
pit, the hearth. You grow up speaking a home language.”
~Gary
Snyder, Gary Snyder Reader
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