J. B. Jackson Quotes & Sayings

Landscape is history made visible. — J. B. Jackson

The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others. — J. B. Jackson

It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity. — J. B. Jackson

The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment. — J. B. Jackson

Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform. — J. B. Jackson