“Nothing is invented, for it’s written in nature first.
Originality consists of returning to the origin.”
– Antoni Gaudi
Science in Nature
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Originality consists of returning to the origin.”
– Antoni Gaudi
“Few of us live in round houses anymore, where there are no walls or corners. Indigenous architecture tends to the small and round, though, following the model of nests and dens and burrows and redds and eggs and wombs – as if there were some universal pattern for home.”
“It takes real effort to remember that it’s not just in a wigwam that the earth gives us everything we need. The exchange of recognition, gratitude, and reciprocity for these gifts is just as important in a Brooklyn flat as under a birch bark roof.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer, BRAIDING SWEETGRASS, 225, 240