Less is only more where more is no good..

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature..

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us..

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials..

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you..

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use..

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for….

An idea is salvation by imagination..

Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.

Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit..

Each material has its own message..

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest..

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there..

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be..

If it sells, it's art..

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization..

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoveri….

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built..

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union..

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen..