14 Quotes & Sayings By Stephen Gardiner

Stephen Gardiner is a writer, editor, and public speaker. His articles have been published in national magazines, including National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times, Esquire, and O, The Oprah Magazine. His books include Field Guide to America's National Parks and Field Guide to the National Parks of the Eastern United States. He has served as a featured speaker at a number of national events and has been a guest on television programs including NBC's Today Show and CBS Early Show.

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Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. Stephen Gardiner
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The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. Stephen Gardiner
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What people want, above all, is order. Stephen Gardiner
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Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. Stephen Gardiner
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French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community. Stephen Gardiner
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The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. Stephen Gardiner
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The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. Stephen Gardiner
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Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. Stephen Gardiner
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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. Stephen Gardiner
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Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world. Stephen Gardiner
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The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. Stephen Gardiner
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The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. Stephen Gardiner
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Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. Stephen Gardiner