Jon Anderson > Quotes

“The secret of poetry is cruelty.”
― Jon Anderson

“If there is a worm in the heart, & chamber it has bitten out,
I will protect that emptiness until it is large enough.
In it will be a light the color of steel & landscape, into which the traveler might set out.”
― Jon Anderson

“Force the bit between the mouth of freedom didn't we learn to fly
Remember to sail the skies
Distant suns
Will we reach
Winds allow
Other skylines
Other skylines to hold you ”
― Jon Anderson

“Sense of place refers to the emotional, experiential, and affective traces that tie humans into particular environments.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces

“culture includes the material things, the social ideas, the performative practices, and the emotional responses that we participate in, produce, resist, celebrate, deny, or ignore. Culture is therefore the constituted amalgam of human activity – culture is what humans do.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces

“Traces are marks, residues, or remnants left in place by cultural life.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces

“What cultural geography seeks to do, therefore, is explore the intersections of context and culture.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces

“Context can influence what actions we choose to make and how we choose to make them, it can influence how these actions are judged by ourselves and others, and thus how successful and significant they turn out to be.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces

“Places are at once the medium and the message of cultural life. They are where cultures, communities, and people root themselves and give themselves definition.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces

“Geographical context is often thought about in terms of national or political territories, physical landscapes, or exotic places.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces

“These trace-chains are also significant as they may motivate similar actions in other places.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces

“Spaces are scientific, open, and detached; places are intimate, peopled, and emotive.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces

“As a consequence of the constant production of traces, places become dynamic entities; they are in fluid states of transition as new traces react with existing or older ones to change the meaning and identity of the location. It is argued here, therefore, that places should be understood as ongoing compositions of traces.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces