On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.

Less is only more where more is no good.

I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches