Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper
Tag: painting
below street level
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
William Jennings Bryan
habitation elements
The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat. Walter Gropius
dark tines
“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
deep in the neural net
If you want to make information stick, it’s best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it – to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.
square 4×3 4
We can see every square metre of the planet on Google Earth. But there is no substitute for that sensory experience of going out into the world and discovering things for yourself. Tim Cope
Frieze Fragment found on Oberon
“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
― De l’art de persuader
