Deborah Tall quotes

“I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.”
-- Deborah Tall

Source : Deborah Tall (1993). “From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”

#Identity Quotes #Landscape Quotes #Helping Quotes

“The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.”
-- Deborah Tall

Source : Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.77, Syracuse University Press

#Powerful Quotes #Dwelling Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity”
-- Deborah Tall

Source : Deborah Tall (1993). “From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”

#Identity Quotes #Mobility Quotes #Individualism Quotes

“In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.”
-- Deborah Tall

Source : Deborah Tall (1993). “From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”

#Nature Quotes #Vacation Quotes #Play Quotes

“We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.”
-- Deborah Tall

Source : Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.99, Syracuse University Press

#Children Quotes #Video Quotes #Looks Quotes

“How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?”
-- Deborah Tall

Source : Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.6, Syracuse University Press

#Land Quotes #World Quotes #Evoke Quotes

“Home is where we know - and are known - through accumulated experience.”
-- Deborah Tall

Source : Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.74, Syracuse University Press

#Home Quotes

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.”

“A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.”

Source : Address at the Leadership and Diversity Conference Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, www.akdn.org. May 19, 2004.

“A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.”

“What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'”

“The new social landscape is rich with emotion.”

“He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.49, Macmillan

“Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.”

“Nothing is stronger than gentleness.”