#in

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#also #beginning #blocks #examining #forgot

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend. ↗

— Homer

#friend #i #nothing #sane #shall

On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father. ↗

— Henry Benedict Stuart

#cause #father #feelings #give #greatest

We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#religion #nature

I was an angst-y journal writing kid. ↗

— Justin Halpern

#journal #kid #writing

And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#done #draw #finally #get #give

And I think one of the tasks that I always feel is how to get that vision out of them. Not exactly what they want, but what they want to accomplish for themselves or their community or their family. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#always #community #exactly #family #feel

Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#believe #benefits #depend #few #getting

Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#because #city #dense #different #especially

I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn't think about this very much because I'm almost weeping when I think about it. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#almost #because #did #feel #guys