"When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to a whole."

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Source : Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

Isamu Noguchi

#Garden Quotes #Space Quotes #Site Quotes

“I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.”
“To say â€˜I love youâ€™ one must first know how to say the â€˜I.â€™ The meaning of the â€˜Iâ€™ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.”
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”
“Make today worth remembering.”
“For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.”

Source : Garth Nix (2014). “Abhorsen”, p.194, Hot Key Books
“A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.”
“Normally I'm not like a big TV person. I never use my DVR.”
“At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to "a green hill far away, without a city wall," where the founder of Christianity was crucified by those forces of selfishness, greed, and lust for gain that are still at work in the world. It seems to me that unless we do something in Canada about the question of the export of war materials there will be another crucifixion - the crucifixion of a generation of young men, crucified upon a cross of nickel.”

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