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The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character
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Prophet of the Human-Built World: An Introduction to John Ruskin
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The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland
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Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and nothing can reach them so little as criticism. Only love can grasp them and keep hold of them and be just to them. Always trust yourself and your own feelings as opposed to any such analysis, review or introduction; if you should be wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will lead you slowly
... See moreRainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
Ruskin connected the wish to travel fast and far to an inability to derive appropriate pleasure from any one place
Alain De Botton • The Art of Travel
“Just that. Listen, wasn’t it Odo who said that where there’s property there’s theft?” “ ‘To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.’
Ursula K. LeGuin • The Dispossessed (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
Now, further, there is even a sadder industry yet, which is forced on many, very many, of our workers - the making of wares which are necessary to them and their brethren, because they are an inferior class . For if many men live without producing, nay, must live lives so empty and foolish that they force a great part of the workers to produce ware... See more