Quotes of the Day

"For the first time in human history more than half of the world lives in cities and it's rising". Sustain That, Architecture Review Australia 2005

"While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand;
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;
And when Rome falls -- the world"
-Lord Byron-

"Florence is beautiful, as I have said before, and must say again and again, most beautiful. The river rushes through the midst of its palaces like a crystal arrow, and it is hard to tell, when you see all by the clear sunset, whether those churches, and houses, and windows, and bridges, and people walking, in the water or out of the water, are real walls and windows, and bridges, and people, and churches." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Letter to Mr. Boyd (1847)