"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."

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Source : Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

Arthur Erickson

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“Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime. [On keeping guns]”
“Whoever hesitates while waiting for ideas to triumph among the masses before initiating revolutionary action will never be a revolutionary. Humanity will, of course, change. Human society will, of course, continue to develop-in spite of men and the errors of men. But that is not a revolutionary attitude.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.”
“Each person's heart breaks in it's own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things we all need. Before anything else, we need to feel safe.”

Source : Erica Bauermeister (2009). “The School of Essential Ingredients”, p.17, Penguin
“I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.”
“We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.”
“Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.”
“I'm looking at my window right now and it's a perfect blue sky. And if you ask people about Sept. 11, the one thing they'll tell you is how serenely, awesomely, perfectly blue the sky was. The juxtaposition of how the day began and what happened is jarring even now.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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