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

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

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

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

What people want, above all, is order.

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

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.