Sense Of Place Quotes:

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

- Isabel Allende

source: "The Lenny Interview: Isabel Allende". Interview with Collier Meyerson, www.lennyletter.com. January 15, 2016.

topic: Stories, Place And Time, Sense Of Place

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Where You Are, Standing, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

- Rebecca Solnit

topic: Memories, Perception, Together, Spatial, Sixth Sense

If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.

- Wendell Berry

topic: Journey, Hiking, Where We Come, Sense Of Place

It had come to me not in a sudden epiphany but with a gradual sureness, a sense of meaning like a sense of place. When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for you when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.

- Rebecca Solnit

source: Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.16, Penguin

topic: Memories, Exploring The World, Giving, Terrain, New Places

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

- Watts Humphrey

source: Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

topic: Maps, Helping, Where You Are, Management Motivation, Managing Time

When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.

- Lyle Lovett

topic: Strong, Home, Never Leave Me, Sense Of Place

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

- Christopher Morley

source: CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

topic: Laughter, Humor, Two, Humor And Laughter, Humor Laughter

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams, Humpty Dumpty, Management Motivation

The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.

- Irvine Welsh

source: Source: www.raintaxi.com

topic: Book, Evoke, Valuable, Sense Of Place

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

- Ed McMahon

topic: Caring, Needs, Surroundings, Sense Of Place

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

- Paul Strisik

topic: People, Want, Pleasure, Sense Of Place

Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place," we posit an intimate relationship to a set of stories connected to a particular location, such as Hong Kong or the Grand Canyon or the bed where we were born, thinking of histories and the evolution of personalities in a local context. Having "a sense of self" means possessing a set of stories about who we are and with whom and why.

- William Kittredge

source: William Kittredge (2010). “The Nature of Generosity”, p.13, Vintage

topic: Mean, Thinking, Intimate Relationships, Sense Of Place

Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful life. We long to belong, and belonging and caring anchors our sense of place in the universe.

- Patricia Churchland

topic: Meaningful, Atheist, Caring, Sense Of Place

When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context.

- Jonathan Hale

topic: Attitude, House, Effort, Old Ways, Sense Of Place

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

- Richard Meier

topic: Responsibility, Order, Architecture, Sense Of Place

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.

- Steven Holl

topic: Links, Architecture, Poetic, Sense Of Place

Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, "I went there"---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- "and it wasn't like that." I say, "Because I am not you.

- Paul Theroux

source: Paul Theroux (2001). “The Best American Travel Writing 2001”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Strong, Book, Writing, Albania, Pacific

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

- William Kennedy

topic: Self, Voice, Ego, Empty Rooms, Sense Of Place

The tonal is the sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Order, World, Sense Of Place

Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour to hour.

- Erik Larson

source: Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.482, Random House

topic: Lakes, Cities, People, Sense Of Place

Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging

- Paul Tsongas

topic: Home, Firsts, Belonging, Sense Of Place

[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on your front porch. Creating your name helps to build a sense of place within your neighborhood as well as pride in your accomplishments. By naming your farm you give it a life of its own. Be creative and come up with a name that inspires and makes people smile, like my friend Laura's "Wish We Had Acres," the Fairy Tale inspired "Jack's Bean Stalk" or my "Urban Farm.

- Greg Peterson

topic: Pride, Names, Creating, Make People Smile, Front Porches

The regional tags are often pejorative and dismissive. Don't think of place-bound stories, in other words, but of stories with a strong sense of place.

- John Dufresne

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Sense Of Place

Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty.

- Barry Lopez

topic: Eden, Patterns, Divine, Reverberation, Sense Of Place

I'm one who needs to be in the space [for] a sense of place and order. It's crucial.

- Sue Tompkins

topic: Order, Space, Needs, Sense Of Place

Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to have a continued presence on earth, humankind will reevaluate its sense of place in the world and modify its strong species-centric stewardship of the planet. Our collective concepts of morality and ethics have a direct impact on our species' ultimate fate.

- Jeff Schweitzer

topic: Strong, Atheist, Fate, Morality And Ethics, Sense Of Place

All great hotels should have stellar personalized service, a unique design that gives guests a sense of place, an excellent on-site restaurant, and other fantastic amenities. Obviously location is a key factor as well.

- Ivanka Trump

source: Source: www.luxurytravelmagazine.com

topic: Unique, Keys, Should Have, Stellar, Personalized

In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to the novels of Edith Wharton, among others, where social dynamics are crucial. Wharton's class consciousness fascinates me, and some of the tension in my books stems from that.

- Susan Wiggs

source: Interview with Suzanne Fox, www.publishersweekly.com. January 28, 2002.

topic: Book, Class, Elements, Class Consciousness, Sense Of Place

OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.

- Janet Suzman

topic: Forever, Looks, Judaism, Sense Of Place

To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

- William Safire

topic: Ambition, Ideas, Boredom, Sense Of Place

To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is a ritual that makes every participant feel good. We may not rationalize this at the time, but it gives us a sense of place in our common community and our time in the tides of life on earth. This is a way to value beer and treat it with respect.

- Michael Jackson

topic: Beer, Garden, Glasses, Sense Of Place, New Acquaintances

I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.

- Junot Diaz

source: "A long-term relationship". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2012.

topic: Powerful, Home, Leaving, Dominican Republic, Always Leaving

I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Thinking, Suffering, World, Sense Of Place