"When a place is central to a good writer's imagination, it is because that place has become a metaphor for larger con…"

"You don't want to stand on a corner and be told to get off it when you got nowhere else to go. And we want somewhere …"

"The place is silent and aware; It has had its scenes, its joys and crimes, But that is its own affair."

"All places are distant from heaven alike."

"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else…"

"We are children of our landscape. It dictates behaviour and even thought in the measure in which we are responsive to…"

"Man is only an extension of the spirit of place."

"It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth sense for…"

"The great thing is to try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To …"

"A place where I can find out again—where I am—and what I must do. A place where I can stop and do nothing in order to…"