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Robin Day

"I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature."

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"I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature."

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"Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done-peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color."

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"Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."

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"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."

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"It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet."

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"Sipping teawith gleebeneath a gooseberry tree.I wish Alice were here.Oh, my dear,do not fear,she will be."

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"There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature!"

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"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"

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"Tess was awake before dawn - at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken."

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"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."

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"I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function."
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"You've got to build a career and a practice."
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"I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about."
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"There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable."
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"I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak."
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"Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair."
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"I'm pretty much a vegetarian."
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"I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future."
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"I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places."
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"Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood."
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