Sim Van der Ryn famous quotes

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The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance of considering humans and nature as part of any project. Itâ€™s illustrated with my own watercolors I hope it will inspire the next generation of architects to design places we can all enjoy.
-- Sim Van der Ryn

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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.
My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all â€“ Love. Only love can accept our differences as we journey through life. And only love can allow space for our growth.
Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.
The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.
This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.
What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.

Sim Van der Ryn famous quotes

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