9 Quotes by Yi-Fu Tuan

People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.

Geography is the study of earth as the home of people.

Place is security, space is freedom.

A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone.

All creative effort – including the making of an omelet – is preceded by destruction.

It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence.

Lucidity, I maintain, is almost always desirable.

Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd.

In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children’s fairy tales as well as adult’s legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.