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46 quotes by Stephen Gardiner

Gardiner's chantry tomb in Winchester Cathedral. Stephen Gardiner (c. 1483 - 12 November 1555) was an English Roman Catholic bishop and politician during the English Reformation period who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary I of England.
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The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

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Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

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The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

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

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The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

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The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

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

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It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

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

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In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

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In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

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

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The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

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