Deborah Tall Quotes & Sayings

In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop. — Deborah Tall

We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them. — Deborah Tall

Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity — Deborah Tall

It's true--I can see it now--we are made of where we've come from, molded by landscape, weather, harbors, hunger, and war, as much as by individual ancestors. The experience of the place--its struggles, strife, and horrors--accrues, even if we haven't personally experienced it. We are, still, its inevitable consequence. — Deborah Tall

I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time. — Deborah Tall

How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape? — Deborah Tall

The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status. — Deborah Tall

Home is where we know - and are known - through accumulated experience. — Deborah Tall