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Stephen Gardiner (c. 1483 – 12 November 1555) was an English bishop and politician during the English Reformation period who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary I and King Philip.

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The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

Civilization, Concepts, Gdp, Ties, Western

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Detail, Details, Fog, Light, Misty, Subtle

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

Calm, Discover, Man, Men, Peace, Shapes

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

Carriers, Ideas, Mere, Nomad, Past, Remain

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

Men, Minoans, Order, Presents, Views

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

Balance, Describes, Form, Pictorial

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

Art, Japanese, Roles, Space, Zen

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

Garden, House, Japanese, Melts, World

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.

Allowed, Firma, People, Should, Wish

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Greater, Steps, Steps Forward, Taken, Wisdom

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

Conflict, Continual, England, Rose, Roses, War

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

Back, Explore, Forward, Further, Order

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

Aloofness, Approach, French, House, Influential, Largest

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

Concern, Dark, Discovery, French, Light

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

Architecture, Community, Individual, Scale

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

Largely, Method, Order, Outcomes, Reveals, Style

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

Home, Land, Like, Sea, Secure

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

Among, Composition, Gains, House, Tree, Trees

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

Central, Hearth, House, Littles, Range, Stones

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden

Design, Garden, Interior, Land

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