Robyn Griggs Lawrence > Quotes

“If my home is indeed a sanctuary, I want to treat everything I bring into it as sacred.”
― Robyn Griggs Lawrence, The Wabi-Sabi House: The Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty

“In 1998 Gordon Hempton, a sound recordist attempting to build a library of natural sounds, toured fifteen states west of the Mississippi and found only two areas--in the mountains of Colorado and the Boundary Waters of Minnesota--that were free of motors, aircraft, industrial clamor, or gunfire for more than fifteen minutes during daylight. ”
― Robyn Griggs Lawrence, The Wabi-Sabi House: The Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty

“wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature, of accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay and death.”
― Robyn Griggs Lawrence, Simply Imperfect: Revisiting the Wabi-Sabi House