Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

- Stephen Gardiner

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

- Stephen Gardiner

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

- Stephen Gardiner

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

- Stephen Gardiner

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

- Stephen Gardiner

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

- Stephen Gardiner

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

- Stephen Gardiner

What people want, above all, is order.

- Stephen Gardiner

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

- Stephen Gardiner