“The heart of ecological design is not efficiency or sustainability. It is the embodiment of animating spirit, the soul of the living world as embodied in each of us waiting to be reborn and expressed in what we design.”
- Sym Van Der Ryn

“In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.”
- Peter Zumthor

“Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and tender and compassionately attuned to other than self.”
- Buckminster Fuller