Stay, stay at home, my heart, and
rest;
Home-keeping hearts are happiest.
- Henry W. Longfellow, 1807 - 1882
Happiness grows at our own firesides,
and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
- Douglas Jerrold
I do not understand how anyone can
live
without one small place of enchantment to turn to.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
If you should look for this place after a
handful of lifetimes:
Perhaps of my planted forest a few
May stand yet, dark-leaved Australians or the coast cypress, haggard
With storm-drift; but fire and the axe are devils.
Look for foundations of sea-worn granite, my fingers had the art
To make stone love stone, you will find some remnant.
- Robinson and Una Jeffers build a home on the Big Sur coast of California, Tor House, 1928
I would not a bit mind sleeping in
the cool grass in summer,
and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm
close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn,
provided I had love in my heart.
- Oscar Wilde
You leave home to seek
your fortune and, when you get it,
you go home and share it with your family.
- Anita Baker
Nature is not a place to visit, it is home.
- Gary Snyder
I never had any other desire so strong, and
so like covetousness, as that ...
I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very
moderate conveniences
joined to them,
and there dedicate the remainder
of my life to the culture of them and the study of
nature.
- Abraham Cowley, circa 1655
Me and my books in the same
apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.
- Gustave Flaubert
Hospitality is a form of worship.
- The Talmud
It is easy to embellish the pillars
and insert beams in a home
but hard to ge the huai tree to grow.
- Yuan Yeh
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in
your own home.
- Alice Walker
There's no place like home,
there's no place like home,
there's no place like home.
- Frank L. Baum, The Wizard of Oz
You could walk out of
the house,
but you always returned home.
- Witold Rybczynski, Home: A Short History of an Idea
Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters
- where sensible
people manage to live
relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they
must be, as free as they may be, and
as
masterly as they can be. If we
only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.
- Erik H. Erikson
We need two homes, a
green one and a brown one, a grown one
and a built one, two worlds in tension.
- Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming
cash while all the time you are under the illusion that
you are spending nothing.
- Esther Meynell
The relationship
between man and space is none other
than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken.
- Martin Heidegger, Buidling, Dwelling, Thinking
Man is a peculiar creature. He spends
a fortune making his home
insect-proof and air-conditioned, and then eats in the yard.
- Author Unknown
... a hermitage, which is about an acre of
ground - an island, planted with all variety of
trees, shrubs and flowers that will grow in this country, abundance of little winding
walks,
differently embellished with little seats and banks; in the midst is place a hermit's
cell,
made of the roots of trees, the floor is paved with pebbles, there is a couch made of
matting, and little wooden stools, a table with a manuscript on it, a pair of
spectacles,
a leathern bottle; and hung up in different parts, an hourglass, a weatherglass and
several mathematical instruments, a shelf of books, another of wood platters and
bowls, another of earthen ones, in short everything that you might imagine
necessary for a recluse.
- Mrs. Delany, 1748
A garden is a place arranged for
promenades and at the same time
for the recreation of the eyes. But it is also an accessory to the
house, serving it as an accompaniment, an environment; and,
within certain limits, it is simply another apartment, an annex
of the house. Therefore, how can the art which built and
adorn the dwelling be refused the right to interfere in
this exterior house?
- Vitet
Where is home?
Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness.
Home iw where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.
- Vernon Baker
What is the use of a House if you
haven't got a
tolerable planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau
Where we love is home - home that our feet
may leave,
but not our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
For my own part I am pleased
enough with surfaces - in fact they
alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for
example as ... the bark of a tree, the arbrasion of granite and sand,
the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind - what
else is there? What else do we need?
- Edward Abbey, Desert
Solitaire
We must make our homes
centers of compassion
and forgive endlessly.
- Mother Teresa
Home is where the
books are.
- Richard Burton
"In this study,
we found that the more vegetation in a common space, the stronger
the neighborhood social
ties near that space," wrote Frances E. Kuo, William Sullivan
and Liesette Brunson of
the U. of I. and Rebekah Levine Coley of the University of
Chicago. "Compared to
residents living adjacent to relatively barren spaces,
individuals living adjacent to
greener common spaces had more social activities
and more visitors, knew more of their
neighbors, reported their neighbors were
more concerned with helping and supporting one
another, and had stronger
feelings of belonging."
People who live in glass houses
shouldn't.
- J. S. Singer
We would like only,
for once, to get to where we are already.
- Martin Heidegger, Language
A dwelling should be
not a retreat from space, but life in space.
- L. Hoholy-Nagy, The New Vision
Suburbia is where the developer
bulldozes out the trees,
then names the streets after them.
- Bill Vaughan
If the day ever comes
when they know who
They are, they may know better where they are.
- Robert Frost, A Cabin in the Clearing
Though there are other ways to
finance your gardening, one successful
way is to choose carefully whom you marry. A good and generous man
is needed, one who knows how to make money and enjoys sharing it, one
who himself is not interested in the actual pursuit of gardening but likes
to be proud of the premises.
- Emily Whaley, Mrs. Whaley's Charleston Garden
Perhaps home is not a place
but simply an irrevocable condition.
- James Baldwin
The sun at home warms
better than the sun elsewhere.
- Albanian proverb
Place and the scale of
space must be measured against
our bodies and their capabilities.
- Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild
It is easier to pull down than to
build up.
- Latin Proverb
Once in his life a man ought
to concentrate his mind upon
the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a
particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as
many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, and dwell upon it.
- N. Scott Momaday
The strength of a
nation derives from the integrity of the home.
- Confucius
Knowing where and who are intimately linked.
- Gary Snyder, Re-Inhabitation
If delight may provoke men's labour,
what greater delights is there
then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe
of imbroidered worke, set with orient pearles, and garnished with
great diversitie of rare and costly jewels? The delight is great but
the use greater, and joyned often with necessitie.
- John Gerarde
When men do not love their hearth,
nor reverence their thresholds,
it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house-hold God,
as well as a heavenly one; He has an altar in every man's dwelling.
- John Ruskin (1819-1900), The Seven Lamps of Architecture,
1908
Home is
the most popular, and will be the most
enduring of all earthly establishments.
- Channing Pollock
A physician can bury his mistakes, an
architect can only
advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
To dwell means to
belong to a given place.
- Christian Norberg-Schulz, The Concept of Dwelling
This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears,
Built as it has been in our waning years,
A rest afforded to our weary feet,
Preliminary to - the last retreat.
- William Cowper, 1793
An inscription for the small cabin, a Hermitage, in the author's garden
A man travels the world over in
search of what he needs
and returns home to find it.
- George Moore
The impulse for much
writing is homesickness. You are trying
to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home,
so you are assuaging the homesickness.
- Joan Didion
Home is the place
where when you have to go there,
they have to take you in.
- Robert Frost
Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting
but taking care
of and creating that space within which something
comes into its own and flourishes.
- Martin Heidegger
E'vn in the stifling bosom of the
town,
A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms
That soothes the rich possessor; much consol'd,
That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint,
Or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well
He cultivates.
- William Cowper, The Task, 1785
A house is a machine
for living in.
- Le Corbursier. Towards a New Architecture
Our relation to the
natural world takes place in a place.
- Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild
Peace and a well-built house cannot
be bought too dearly.
- Danish proverb
We shall not cease
from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive at where we started
And know the place for the first time.
- T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
To feel at home, stay
at home.
- Clifton Fadiman
Nature comes home to one most when he
is at home; the stranger
and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also. One's own
landscape comes in time to be a sort of outlying part of himself;
he has sowed himself broadcast upon it, and it reflects his own
moods and feelings; he is sensitive to the verge of the horizon: cut
those trees, and he bleeds; mar those hills, and he suffers. How has
the farmer planted himself in his fields; builded himself into his
stone walls, and evoked the sympathy of the hills by his struggle!
This home feeling, this domestication of nature, is important to
the observer. This is the birdlime with which he catches the bird;
this is the private door that admits him behind the scenes."
- John Burroughs, 1837 - 1921
It is not down in any
map; true places never are.
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick
The home is not the
one tame place in the world of adventure.
It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Links and Recommended Reading
Getting Back Into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the
Place-World. By Edward S. Casey.
Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press, 1993. Bibliography,
extensive notes, 403 pages.
ISBN: 0253313317.
Home: A Short History of an Idea. By Witold Rybczynski.
Rustic Retreats: A Build-It-Yourself Guide. By
David and Jeanie Stiles. Pownal, Vermont, Storey
Books, 1998. Bibliography,
153 pages. ISBN: 1580170358.
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