335 Quotes About Place

I think the purpose of life is to know who we are to ourselves and others, to know where we are in terms of time and place, and to do what we can to stay alive. what happens thereafter is the purpose of death.

If you want to know a country, read its writers.

Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.

Living among towers can tempt you into complacency.

Physical places ... shape the attitudes of visitors arriving from distant homelands ... the nature of the visited place affects the very tone of a journal entry. It influences the selection of the facts one chooses to jot down about that place.

... the historian who visits a place writes a different history than the historian who stays at home, satisfied to read about a place someone else once visited

I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the rest of their lives, that places were more reliable than human beings, and often much longer-lasting, and I asked them where they felt at home.

GreenHollyWood, I think that you asked me why I don't get out?- I'm kinda in hateful state, I hate to watch the fucking liars to lie in front of my face and backward to put the knife in my back. Why I stay home?- It's awesome place, I feel safe and out of the ignorance there is always somebody to harass for to get attention.

In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay.