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I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more frag

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We neednt destroy other cultures with the force of our own. – Arthur Erickson

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Todays developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise. – Arthur Erickson

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After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. – Arthur Erickson

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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. – Arthur Erickson

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The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels. – Rupert Sheldrake

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Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. – Richard P. Feynman

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. – Vincent Van Gogh

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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. – Anatole France

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Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. – Harry S. Truman

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