Quotes About Environment, Place And Home

Place is what is between you and the landscape.
(origin unknown at this time)

You can fall in love on first sight  with a Place as well as a person.
(Alec Waugh)

You think in secret, and it comes to pass:
Your environment is but your looking-glass.
(James Allen – As A Man Thinketh)

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve.
(Richard Bach)

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?
(W Clement Stone)

I’ve often thought that our obsession with the automobile has been one of the major contributors to our creation of meaningless places. When I drive, separated from the surrounding landscape by glass, fan whir and stereo blast, I feel strangely disconnected.
(Marilyn Finnemore)

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
(W Clement Stone)

Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.
(Marshall McLuhan)

Perhaps Home is not one of those things that can ever be finished, just like one can never finish caring for a dog, a garden, a business, or a relationship. Home — no matter how large or small, expensive or modest, urban or rural — takes constant care and attention and creativity and when these are diverted elsewhere, the soul leaves the place, and the place ceases to be animated, ceases to be a manifestation of what we love, and often ceases to be Home altogether. But that can probably be said about anything that really matters.
(Marilyn Finnemore)

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us “universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
(Albert Einstein)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.
(Albert Einstein)

Nothing is more intimate than Home, and therefore nothing more proper to the soul. Whatever it takes to call forth the spirits of Home . . . is worth our effort and expense. It is always time to trim a plant, glaze a window, clean a rug, or write a poem about home, talk to relatives about the old days and the old homestead, and remember the failures and painful memories that took place at home. All of these go into the making of the soul’s home, a daily work that prepares us for our death and gives our lives the intimate focus that is the primary gift of home.
(Thomas Moore)

As a society, we focus on what that processed food is doing to our children’s physical health, but perhaps the more important question is what “fast meals” served in assembly-line fashion by strangers are doing to our children’s sense of place and their connection to the world around them.
(Marilyn Finnemore)

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