"Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal."

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Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

Robert Smithson

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“When there is nothing else to say, I go for a smoke”
“However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.”
“You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.”
“I'm more of a debit card person, and I live in the 'now'. I don't like credit cards anymore. I try to live with whatever I can afford and don't try to put myself in an awkward position. I've done that before.”

Source : "Westlife singer Shane Filan on life after his £18m bankruptcy". Interview with Lorraine McBride, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 19, 2013.
“The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.”
“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.”
“You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge and Cable burgers hard by the Golden Gate, Dixie burgers in the sunny South and Yankee Doodle burgers in the North....We had a Capitol Burger - guess where. And so help us, in the inner courtyard of the Pentagon, a Penta burger.”
“Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.”

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