"The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context."

-- Vittorio Gregotti

#Essence Quotes #Design Quotes #Tasks Quotes

“Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong.”
“Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.”
“We can look at the way of improving the key biochemical processes like photosynthesis itself. A lot of energy is lost to keep the plant cool. So maybe we can think of building plants which are more resistant to heat. Genetically modified plants can be one answer and we can imagine more efficient plants, call them 'energy plants'. And I believe, contrary to what ecologists think, they can still be beautiful plants.”

Source : Source: www.lindau-nobel.org
“My wife is my favorite person I've ever met in my 40 years on the planet, and I'm sure she would agree that patience is not her strongest characteristic. I don't know that golf would be the game for her.”
“In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.”
“We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.”
“I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.”
“The only valid cure for any kind of depression is the acceptance of real suffering. To climb out of it any other way is simply laying the foundation for the next depression.”

Source : Helen M. Luke (2011). “The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine”, p.82, Image

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