rod howe

Architecture, place, land, history, culture, community and the environment. P.L.A.C.E. - people, land, architecture, culture and the environment.

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"I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods." Wendell Berry, b, 8/5/1934

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"Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues." Barack Obama, b. 8/4/1961

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"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in." James Baldwin, b. 8/2/1924

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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” Henry David Thoreau, b. 7/12/1817

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“The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it's a different kind of life.” Buckminster Fuller, b. 7/12/1895

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“I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.” Andrew Wyeth, b. 7/12/1917

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"We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it, and no matter how we fouled it, there was always more over the next hill, or so it seemed."
William H. Whyte, b. 7/11/1917

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"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day." Dalai Lama, b. 7/6/1935

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"We must redefine the American Dream before we rebuild the infrastructure on which it is based." Paolo Soleri, b. 6/21/1919

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"Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain."
Frank Lloyd Wright, b. 6/8/1867

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"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed." Walt Whitman, b. 5/31/1819

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"Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished." Rachel Carson, b. 5/27/1907

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"Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself." Miles Davis, b. 5/26/1926

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"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." Emerson, b. 5/25/1803

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"Coming out is the most political thing you can do." Harvey Milk, b. 5/22/1930

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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." Buddha

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"Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace." May Sarton, b. 5/3/1912

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"Design is people." Jane Jacobs, b. 5/4/1916

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"At the heart of every being lies creation's dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, b. 5/1/1881

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"The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth." Frederick Law Olmsted, b. 4/26/1822