Quote by Stephen Gardiner
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. – Stephen Gardiner

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The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. – Stephen Gardiner

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Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. – Stephen Gardiner

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Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved. – Richard Meier

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