"Others paint a bridge, a house, a boat. I want to paint the air around the bridge, the house, the boat" - Claude Monet

"Beautiful and bright . . . and feathery and evanescent on the surface . . . but beneath the fabric must be clamped together with bolts of iron . . . a thing you could ruffle with your breath; and a thing you could not dislodge with a team of horses." - Virginia Woolf.

"a room that grew buoyant and, little by little, expanded into the vast stretches of travel" - René Char

"At night they lie along the earth. They tower, they arch, they droop over the streets like chandeliers of darkness." - Henry David Thoreau

"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul." - John Muir

"And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties, there isn't any privacy." - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Topophilia; the affective bond with ones environment - a persons mental, emotional and cognitive ties to a place

"the gloaming, the glimmer, the glitter, the glisten, the glamour" Joan Didion

"In the city, high on the cult of productivity, where we float past each other, past the buildngs and trees and the little boy in purple pants, past life itself". - Maria Popova

"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man." - Roland Barthes