Quotes About Enclosure

Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.

it was as if she'd shut out the outside world. No, actually, thought Anna-Maria, suddenly feeling uncomfortable. She isn't shutting out the outside world. She's shutting herself in.

The frontier has been rebuilt. It is now impassable. Our country is surrounded by barbed wire; we are completely cut off from the rest of the world

A cage that allows someone to walk around inside of it is still a cage.

The Italian word 'stanza' means 'a room', and a room is a good way to conceive of a stanza. A room, generally speaking, is sufficient for its own purposes, but it does not constitute a house. A stanza has the same sense of containment, without being complete or independent.

My hole is warm and full of light.

He felt imprisoned in an airplane. In an airplane there was absolutely no place in the world to go except to another part of the airplane.

Be thankful for these walls.

were no windows. A large round handle resembling a

Several of the dusty Griever pods were opening, their top halves lifting upward on hinges like the lids of coffins.

They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.

You could call it the one big box, outside which there isn't another box.

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

I've had a really weird day, some joker threw bamboo in the penguin enclosure. They all vaulted out. It was a nightmare, it took me all morning to get them back in.

The zoo cannot but disappoint.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.

This shed does not contain me.

Not yet born, already John prophesies," wrote Maximus of Turin, "and while still in the enclosure of his mother's womb, confesses the coming of Christ with movements of joy.

After this, he'd probably be going to zoos, climbing the enclosure, saying, 'Here, watch this...' Famous last words, as yet another unfit human is removed from the gene pool.

and barred windows. He

Humans need cages around their bodies – wombs, houses, coffins.

I'll keep you safe, here in my secret room.