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

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

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.