Deborah Tall Quotes

• Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity

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  Identity, Mobility, Individualism

  Deborah Tall (1993). “From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”

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• I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.

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  Identity, Landscape, Helping

  Deborah Tall (1993). “From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”

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• The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.

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  Powerful, Dwelling, Choices

  Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.77, Syracuse University Press

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• In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.

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  Nature, Vacation, Play

  Deborah Tall (1993). “From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”

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• We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.

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  Children, Video, Looks

  Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.99, Syracuse University Press

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• How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?

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  Land, World, Evoke

  Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.6, Syracuse University Press

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• Home is where we know - and are known - through accumulated experience.

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  Home, Knows, Known

  Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.74, Syracuse University Press

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