The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.