Place Quotes

“If you want to know a country, read its writers.”
― Aminatta Forna

“I travel, always arriving in the same place.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape

“To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.”
― Barbara Hurd, Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination

“Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

“Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“This is the place of places and and it is here.”
― Gertrude Stein

“A place is not really a place without a bookstore.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you can't stay there very long. Sooner or later you have to look at your own reflection and decide what to do with yourself.
We are urban people. We make periodic pilgrimages to the country. . . . If we align ourselves with the spirit of place we will find humility fused with joy.
The land holds stories.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, Pieces of White Shell

“No reason for a feverish rush
For we will all arrive in the same place
At the right time. Justice will be served.
There will be no better or worse,
No big and small, no rewards, no punishment,
No guilt, no judges, no hierarchies;
Only silent equality.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“There are some places you can't visit anymore,
poetry and writings take you there.”
― Vaishal sheth

“It is in providing outward display for things and pathways as they exist within the horizons of landscape that places enable memories to become inwardly inscribed and possessed: made one with the memorial self. The visibility without becomes part of the invisibility within.”
― Edward Casey

“Right now, just speak gently your words of wisdom to the youngsters.
Sooner or later, those words will arrive at the right place in their hearts.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it.
Maybe that's what these pages of words are about:
Bringing the world to the window.”
― Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe

“London is a language. I guess all places are.”
― David Mitchell, Ghostwritten

“The USA is a great place to be when you are healthy, it is a horrendous place to be when you become too sick to work.”
― Steven Magee

“Un luogo non è mai solo “quel” luogo: quel luogo siamo un po’ anche noi. In qualche modo, senza saperlo, ce lo portavamo dentro e un giorno, per caso, ci siamo arrivati.”
― Antonio Tabucchi, Viaggi e altri viaggi

“Those without heritage, history, and place are subject to exploitation, manipulation, and deception.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“It had to be U. U. was the only town I could still bear, the one spot in the atlas I'd already absorbed head-on. When you take too many of your critical hits in one place, that place can no longer hurt you.”
― Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2

“We move much too fast, and too frequently, to pause to savor landscapes or avoid disfiguring clutter.”
― Edwin M. Yoder Jr.

“The local paper is called the World.”
― Sharon Doubiago, Hard Country

“In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape

“The person who knows his calling will find opportunities everywhere”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poetry itself. Her concern was this place. This animal world with its unfurling dread and convulsive wars and fabricated certainties, and its breathtaking storms across the water. With Willow infiltrating the landscape and its stories coming thick and fast - these explorers getting younger and more innocent - I felt desperate to reach through time. I wanted to find these kids in a moment of calm. To take their lapels gently in my hands and say, "Better is right here." I still hear it in Lark's voice. Better is here. Stay, and make it better.”
― Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

“Contour and profile ['modinature'] are the touchstone of the architect.
Here he reveals himself as artist or mere engineer.
Contour is free of all restraint.”
― Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture

“I think nobody owns land until their dead are in it.”
― Joan Didion, Run River

“Sometimes the unknown seems like the worst place to consider choosing. However, if you know there is something more to what you desire beyond what’s known to you now, why not venture into the unknown? There are no boundaries or restrictions until you create them.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“. . . true belonging. Which isn’t a place, but a practice.”
― Robin Brown, Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

“If you should fail to comply with our wishes, said the man, you will have no occupation in this or any other field, and henceforth, the world will hold no place for you, ever.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“Position denotes function.”
― Aegelis