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There is a timeless way of building , it's a process through which the order of a building or a town grows out directly from the inner nature of the people, and the animals, and plants, and matter which are in it. Without the help of architects or planners , if you are working in the timeless way's town will grow under your hands, as steady as the flowers in your garden. When we have seen deep into the process to make a building or a town alive, it turns out that this knowledge brings us back to that part of ourselves which is forgotten. | There is a timeless way of building , it's a process through which the order of a building or a town grows out directly from the inner nature of the people, and the animals, and plants, and matter which are in it. Without the help of architects or planners , if you are working in the timeless way's town will grow under your hands, as steady as the flowers in your garden. When we have seen deep into the process to make a building or a town alive, it turns out that this knowledge brings us back to that part of ourselves which is forgotten. | ||
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It does not mean that space create events, or that it causes them, it simply means that a pattern of events cannot be separated from the space where it occurs. | It does not mean that space create events, or that it causes them, it simply means that a pattern of events cannot be separated from the space where it occurs. | ||
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Isn't it true that the features which you remember in a place are not so much pecularities, | Isn't it true that the features which you remember in a place are not so much pecularities, | ||
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A barn gets its structure from its patterns. | A barn gets its structure from its patterns. | ||
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The number of patterns out of which a building or a town is made is rather small. | The number of patterns out of which a building or a town is made is rather small. |