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"Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long."
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"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair."
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"Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers."
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"The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver."
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"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."
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"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours."
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"Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!"
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"The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality."
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"The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only."
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"Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots."
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"The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors."
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"Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society."
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"I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning."
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"Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself."
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"Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long."
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"There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart."
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"Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future."
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"In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society."
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"I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter."
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