I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.

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

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

'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.