A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone.

- Yi-Fu Tuan

Lucidity, I maintain, is almost always desirable.

- Yi-Fu Tuan

All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction.

- Yi-Fu Tuan

In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus chi…

- Yi-Fu Tuan

Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd.

- Yi-Fu Tuan

Place is security, space is freedom.

- Yi-Fu Tuan

Geography is the study of earth as the home of people

- Yi-Fu Tuan

I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known…

- Yi-Fu Tuan

It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence.

- Yi-Fu Tuan