Library/buildings

Famous quotes containing the words library and/or buildings:

“A man’s library is a sort of harem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity’s language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity’s disappearance.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)