Place is security, space is freedom. - Yi-Fu Tuan - Quotesmemo.com

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Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

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Yi-Fu Tuan

Place is security, space is freedom.

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In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.

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Geography is the study of earth as the home of people

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A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone.

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All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction.

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It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence.

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