Top 5 Quotes by Robert Harbison

Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing.

Attitude, Way, Ruins

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

Mean, Men, Garden

Robert Harbison (1977). “Eccentric Spaces”, p.20, MIT Press

Travelers should only read after dark.

Dark, Should, Traveler

Robert Harbison (1977). “Eccentric Spaces”, p.8, MIT Press

We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension.

Home, Two, Needs

Robert Harbison (1977). “Eccentric Spaces”, p.20, MIT Press

It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.

People, Changed, Live By

Robert Harbison Quotes