Surroundings Quotes - Page 8

• Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

  David Adjaye

  Important, Building, Wanted

  "A Sense of Place". Interview with Calvin Tomkins, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2013.

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• Every plant has its fitness and must be placed in its proper surroundings so as to bring out its full beauty. Therein lies the art of landscaping.

  Jens Jensen

  Art, Lying, Plant

  Jens Jensen (1990). “Siftings”, p.115, JHU Press

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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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• The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Gratitude, Grateful, Needs

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• Pure air, good water, sunshine, the beautiful surroundings of nature...these are God's means for restoring the sick to health.

  Ellen G. White

  Beautiful, Mean, Sunshine

  Ellen G. White (1999). “All About Herbs, Charcoal, Medications, and Drugs: A Spirit of Prophecy Compilation”, p.460, Digital Inspiration

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• Never stop learning and adapting. The world will always be changing. If you limit yourself to what you knew and what you were comfortable with earlier in your life, you will grow increasingly frustrated with your surroundings as you age.

  David Niven

  Frustrated, Age, World

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• They say that when you’re really in love, the world becomes gossamer and gorgeous, but in my experience the world gets grimy, and the love object is in stark relief from the surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street.

  Daniel Handler

  Relief, World, Ugly

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• Tribes will be defined by social enclaves on the internet, rather than by geography or kinship, but the world will be more fragmented and less tolerant, since ones real-world surroundings will not have the homogeneity of ones online clan.

  Jim Horning

  Real, World, Tribes

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• To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

  David Whyte

  Intimacy, Abandoned, Deny

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.50, Penguin

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• The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings as a whole, in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things.

  Ole Hallesby

  Spiritual, Order, Ties

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Our surroundings are not contained by name and form. You are neither the body nor the mind, these are limits you identify with through a lack of clear-sightedness. When you are attentive to a tree or flower, the perception, shape, name and concept are not the only things present. There is also the All-presence that you share with them and that you are both part of. The very name and form spring forth from this eternal background, the All-presence. This is instantaneous awareness that cannot be reached by thought.

  Jean Klein

  Spring, Flower, Names

  Jean Klein (1981). “Neither This nor That I Am”

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• In the end, to ski is to travel fast and free – free over untouched snow country. To be bound to one slope, even one mountain, by a lift may be convenient but it robs us of the greatest pleasure that skiing can give, that is to travel through the wide wintery country; to follow the lure of peaks which tempt on the horizon and to be alone for a few days or even hours in clear, mysterious surroundings.

  Hans Gmoser

  Country, Giving, Snow

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• If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Men, Mind

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• Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which are not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping away its life. So the soul, sunk in God, living the life of prayer, is supported, filled, transformed in beauty, by a vitality and a power which are not its own.

  Evelyn Underhill

  God, Prayer, Live Life

  Evelyn Underhill (1990). “Lent With Evelyn Underhill”, p.74, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• ...we must strike a balance so that the protection of our irreplaceable heritage becomes as important as its use. The price of economic growth need not and will not be deterioration in the quality of our lives and our surroundings.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Growth, Balance, Important

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.96, Best Books on

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• 'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should involve these as well. Man is shaped to a great extent by his surroundings. Our physical nature, our mental health, our culture and institutions, our opportunities for challenge and fulfillment, our very survival - all of these are directly related to and affected by the environment in which we live. They depend upon the continued healthy functioning of the natural systems of the Earth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Men, Opportunity, Challenges

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• ... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community members, and as citizens. We have an 'environmental crisis' because we have consented to an economy in which by eating, drinking, working, resting, traveling, and enjoying ourselves we are destroying the natural, god-given world.

  Wendell Berry

  Drinking, Community, Environmental

  Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

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• No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace.

  Maria Montessori

  Solitude, Secret, Degrees

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• Being present is the actor’s job. Being aware of your body, in space, and the emotions that are occurring inside, is essential. Well, quite simply, the more aware one is-of yourself, of your surroundings, of other people-the more likely you are to respond truthfully.

  Sandra Oh

  Jobs, Space, People

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• Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

  Werner Herzog

  Exotic, Used, Form

  "Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo". Book by Werner Herzog, 2009.

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• The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

  E. O. Wilson

  Earth, History Of Life, Interaction

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• Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Response

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• I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go from my studio to my bedroom. Everything else is extraneous. I never entertain, because to me, New York is about meeting people in public spaces, absorbing a little bit of their energy.

  Ross Bleckner

  New York, Space, People

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• The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little ideas, sired by circumstance and damned by folly. The human head can absorb only the flavorings of its surroundings. We assume that our faith political and our creed religious are founded upon our reason, when they are really made for us by social conditions over which we had little control.

  William Cowper Brann

  Religious, Ideas, Political

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