Quotes About Loci

#1. The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
[Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.

Judith Anderson

#3. He's good, all right," Mom said. "But I guess there's something else. About being sure. Sure about anything. Right comes with right timing.

Deb Caletti

#4. The place was silent and - aware.

P.C. Wren

#5. One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.

Daniel Goldstein

#6. 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

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

Linda Lappin

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

Linda Lappin

#9. Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Walt Whitman

#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. Told you I was going to mess up your make up, he said, a smug grin on his face.

Kiersten White

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

Anna Sewell

#13. I wanna explore your body. I wanna kiss my way up and down it all night long.

Collette West

#14. 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

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

Linda Lappin

#16. If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.

Tony Blair

#17. 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

#18. The mountains have rules. they are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is not like men. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul.

Walter Bonatti