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The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world. -- Robert Kiyosaki
For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet. -- Dan Phillips
People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere. -- Dan Phillips
A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house -- Socrates
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials. -- Mark Twain
We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot. -- Arthur Blank
Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products. -- John Engler
Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination. -- Atul Gawande
I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor. -- Dan Phillips
Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat. -- Neal Barnard
Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers. -- Kimberly Quinn
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. -- Martha Graham
If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational. -- David Chipperfield
We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar or paper and ink). -- Virginia Postrel
Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials. -- Tadao Ando
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber. -- Harry Seidler
The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building. -- David Eagleman
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. -- Mary Garden
Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times. -- Jaquelin T. Robertson
I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material. -- Peter Zumthor
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result? -- Helmut Jahn
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. -- James Boswell
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed. -- R. Buckminster Fuller

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