"In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it."

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Source : Christopher Alexander (1975). “The Oregon Experiment”, p.11, Oxford University Press, USA

Christopher Alexander

#Unique Quotes #Different Quotes #Environment Quotes

“A bag of bones can slip through small cracks in a crowd effortlessly.”
“I had the assassins of the former president of Egypt, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was with me in prison, the leaders of my own former group Hizb ut-Tahrir were with me in prison and so by the time I was released at the age of 28, I wasn't the man who went in at 24.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“You're going to have haters and you're going to have lovers”
“In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.”
“The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change but accepting us exactly as we are. And yet this unconditional love does not lead us to rest on our laurels. Instead, it surrounds us with a charged force field that makes us want to grow from the inside out - a force field that is safe enough to take the risks and endure the failures that growth requires.”

Source : Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.60, John Wiley & Sons
“Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.”
“I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.”
“Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.”

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