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

- Robert Harbison

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

- Robert Harbison

Travelers should only read after dark.

- Robert Harbison

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

- Robert Harbison

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

- Robert Harbison