Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account