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The structure of life I have described in buildings – the structure which I believe to be objective – is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling. – Christopher Alexander

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Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive you will be able to design a house together with your family a garden for your children places where you can work beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream. – Christopher Alexander

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The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I dont mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power… stuff thats very close to us. – Christopher Alexander

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There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. – Christopher Alexander

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome mans insecurity before himself and before nature. – Albert Einstein

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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. – Henry David Thoreau

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Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The primary and most beautiful of Natures 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. – Marquis de Sade

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