Christopher Plummer Quotes

I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Watch nature, because it is your greatest teacher. It moves and flows and moves on again. There is an incredible beauty out there in the mountains, in the forests, to teach you it's silence, it's beauty, it's humility. Stay aligned to that.

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.

Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Don't punk out and don't quit.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you're certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself.

Security is a kind of death.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."