Quotes About Genius Loci

#1. By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

Richard Aldington

#2. A deep map is a sample swatch of the multiple manifestations of the genius loci.

Linda Lappin

#3. What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?

Robert D. Kaplan

#4. The place was silent and - aware.

P.C. Wren

#5. The soul of place is like an invisible net --or a force field -- cast up at times from within a house, neighborhood, or landscape to draw us into its labyrinthine folds.

Linda Lappin

#6. The deep map configures narratives. It is a matrix of intertexual storytelling, charting our movements through the landscape.

Linda Lappin

#7. What better way to read the landscape than by walking through it?

Linda Lappin

#8. Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.

Beth Moore

#9. All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart ...

Edith Sitwell

#10. You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened ...

Michael Bentine

#11. You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside

Sue Monk Kidd

#12. Business is a marathon, and most of society thinks it's a sprint.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#13. It is good people who make good places.

Anna Sewell

#14. The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

#15. How well the man reasoned. Lunatics always do within their own scope.

Bram Stoker

#16. Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!

Eliphas Levi