J. B. Jackson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Landscape is history made visible.
-- J. B. Jackson

#Landscape #Made
Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.
-- J. B. Jackson

#Rejection #Reform #Restoration
The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others.
-- J. B. Jackson

#Essence #Numbers #Landscape
The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.
-- J. B. Jackson

#Greek #Doe #Machines
It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.
-- J. B. Jackson

#Giving #Identity #Social

Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'
The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
The fake Zionist regime will disappear from the landscape of geography.
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
He'd made sure i had something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

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