… By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made

… just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.

… it is how we learn to speak about something that is disappearing as we say its name

…the wind on the sea bore a strange melody of an island that sings