"I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface."

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Lebbeus Woods

#Ideas Quotes #Earth Quotes #Landscape Quotes

“Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it.”
“I'm married to football, baseball is my girlfriend.”
“But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.”
“The straight line is ungodly.”
“We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.”

Source : Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.76, A&C Black
“A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.”
“Attributing global climate change to human COâ‚‚ production is akin to trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine (analogous to the Sun in the climate system) and the transmission (water vapour) and instead focusing entirely, not on one nut on a rear wheel (which would be analogous to total CO2) but on one thread on that nut, which represents the human contribution.”
“Why in general, when you`re putting together a White House staff and putting together a good one, you`re looking for someone there who is not someone who`s going to be heavy-handed.”

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