Yi-Fu Tuan quotes:

A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a possible example, as is selfless love. Although moral beauty is a natural gift, it is nevertheless more likely to emerge and flourish in societies that appreciate and encourage it.

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.

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

Geography is the study of earth as the home of people

Place is security, space is freedom.

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

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

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.