"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."
"No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built."
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Source: Frank Lloyd Wright (2008). “The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture”
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