Sense Of Place Quotes

• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Memories, Perception, Together

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• If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.

  Wendell Berry

  Journey, Hiking, Where We Come

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• It had come to me not in a sudden epiphany but with a gradual sureness, a sense of meaning like a sense of place. When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for you when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Memories, Exploring The World, Giving

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.16, Penguin

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.

  Lyle Lovett

  Strong, Home, Never Leave Me

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• Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

  Christopher Morley

  Laughter, Humor, Two

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Evoke, Valuable

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

  Ed McMahon

  Caring, House, Needs

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• People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

  Paul Strisik

  People, Want, Pleasure

  Paul Strisik, Charles Movalli (1980). “The art of landscape painting”

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• Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place," we posit an intimate relationship to a set of stories connected to a particular location, such as Hong Kong or the Grand Canyon or the bed where we were born, thinking of histories and the evolution of personalities in a local context. Having "a sense of self" means possessing a set of stories about who we are and with whom and why.

  William Kittredge

  Mean, Thinking, Intimate Relationships

  William Kittredge (2010). “The Nature of Generosity”, p.13, Vintage

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• Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful life. We long to belong, and belonging and caring anchors our sense of place in the universe.

  Patricia Churchland

  Meaningful, Atheist, Caring

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• I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

  Isabel Allende

  Stories, Place And Time, Rooted

  "The Lenny Interview: Isabel Allende". Interview with Collier Meyerson, www.lennyletter.com. January 15, 2016.

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• When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context.

  Jonathan Hale

  Attitude, House, Effort

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• The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

  Richard Meier

  Responsibility, Order, Architecture

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• Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.

  Steven Holl

  Space, Links, Architecture

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• Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, "I went there"---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- "and it wasn't like that." I say, "Because I am not you.

  Paul Theroux

  Strong, Book, Writing

  Paul Theroux (2001). “The Best American Travel Writing 2001”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

  William Kennedy

  Voice, Empty Rooms, Self

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• The tonal is the sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Order, World

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• Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour to hour.

  Erik Larson

  Cities, Lakes, People

  Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.482, Random House

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• Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging

  Paul Tsongas

  Home, Firsts, Breaths

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• [T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on your front porch. Creating your name helps to build a sense of place within your neighborhood as well as pride in your accomplishments. By naming your farm you give it a life of its own. Be creative and come up with a name that inspires and makes people smile, like my friend Laura's "Wish We Had Acres," the Fairy Tale inspired "Jack's Bean Stalk" or my "Urban Farm.

  Greg Peterson

  Pride, Names, Creating

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• The regional tags are often pejorative and dismissive. Don't think of place-bound stories, in other words, but of stories with a strong sense of place.

  John Dufresne

  Strong, Thinking, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty.

  Barry Lopez

  Eden, Patterns, Divine

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