Quotes from Yi-Fu Tuan

Geography is the study of earth as the home of people

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 children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.

People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.

Happy people have no reason to think. They live rather than question living.

To make some sense of life –to prevent ourselves from going mad– we have one ready means of escape, and that is to dance while we can.

People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.

Place is security, space is freedom.