Robert Harbison Quotes

• Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing.

  Robert Harbison

  Attitude, Way, Ruins

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• Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

  Robert Harbison

  Mean, Men, Garden

  Robert Harbison (1977). “Eccentric Spaces”, p.20, MIT Press

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• Travelers should only read after dark.

  Robert Harbison

  Dark, Should, Traveler

  Robert Harbison (1977). “Eccentric Spaces”, p.8, MIT Press

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• We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension.

  Robert Harbison

  Home, Two, Needs

  Robert Harbison (1977). “Eccentric Spaces”, p.20, MIT Press

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• It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.

  Robert Harbison

  People, Changed, Live By

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