Read quote“Eu escolhi o meu país.”
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About Place
The meanings, attachments, and identities associated with physical locations and environments.
The collection
Words on Place
Read quote“Do the dots shine as brightly as the stars? When I close my eyes, I see the rivers and mountains of my country more clearly than the rainbows.”
Read quote“Dolly Parton, because she has her own theme park.”
Read quote“Though you made me a present of all Moscow, I would not stay.”
Read quote“We do not want Maharashtra to be divided.”
Read quote“We are strangers in this land [of India]. Our fathers and grandfathers came to live here from abroad.”
Read quote“We need to collect the scattered forces of the race, and there is no rallying-ground more favorable than Africa.”
Read quote“I can’t even get away from it all here.”
Read quote“Ultimately architecture is all about the creation of pleasant and stimulating settings for all aspects of social life.”
Read quote“Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, / And souls are ripen'd in our northern sky.”
Read quote“It was the first time I discovered this is Canada.”
Read quote“Minha existência poderia ter ficado encoberta pelas muitas montanhas que encobrem as Minas Gerais se, um dia, uma trupe de circo não tivesse passado por lá.”
Read quote“The work is to be done in Africa.”
Read quote“This is Egypt, and I am one of its people.”
Read quote“It’s hanging outside.”
Read quote“I cannot accept the concept of total regionalism.”
Read quote“The Otira Gorge ... forms a tract of the most enchanting scenery in the Colony, not to be equalled by anything of a similar kind I have yet seen in any part of the world.”