Natural Illumination Quotes

Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light. Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch, they are satisfied with static light and forget the endlessly changing qualities of natural light, in which a room is a different room every second of the day.

And no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual light—even when there isn't any of it.

We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.

A room is not a room without natural light.

In a town church the right place for the admission of light.

My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.

Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.

Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.

The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.

You have the sky overhead giving one light; then the reflected light from whatever reflects; then the direct light of the sun; so that, in the blending and suffusing of these several luminations, there is no such thing as a line to be seen anywhere.

The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.