If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.

We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.

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.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

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

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.