Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform. J. B. Jackson More Quotes by J. B. Jackson More Quotes From J. B. Jackson Landscape is history made visible. J. B. Jackson visible landscape made It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity. J. B. Jackson social identity giving The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others. J. B. Jackson landscape essence numbers The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment. J. B. Jackson cycling violence greek
