"Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today."
-Arthur Erickson
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"Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.“
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"The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land."
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"Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression."
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"There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century."
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"No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems."
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"I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own."
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