A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

The best friend of earth of man is the tree.

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.