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"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
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"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."
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"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."
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"I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number."
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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
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"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."
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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
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"We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways."
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"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."
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"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
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"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
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"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."
Thought
"The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden."
Design
"In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts."
Art
"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
Houses
"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."
Man
"The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition."
Nature
"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character."
Life
"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
Architecture
"Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown."
Home
"In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world."
Gardening
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