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Traditionally, in the Eastern World, man and nature are close: men find happiness and prosperity in the beauty of nature, even if the nature is actually built to match this very need.
Ma Yansong
Happiness
Nature
Man
World
Prosperity
Men
Beauty
Eastern
Find
Match
Built
Very
Close
Even
Actually
Need
We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.
Ma Yansong
Nature
Try
Distinct
Defying
Sees
Idea
Buildings
Which
Modernism
Turn
Landscapes
Elements
Two
I'm trying to express nature in big cities.
Ma Yansong
Nature
Big
Cities
Big Cities
Trying
Express
I think where traditional values are concerned, Chinese people see nature as very symbolic. It's a form of culture.
Ma Yansong
Nature
Culture
People
Values
Think
See
Concerned
Traditional
Traditional Values
Very
Where
Form
Chinese
Chinese People
Symbolic
To allow millions of people to live together on limited land, we have to go to the sky; we have to build a high rise. But we can still build nature and social space into the towers. Each family can have their own courtyard in the sky.
Ma Yansong
Family
Nature
Together
People
Space
Sky
Build
Own
Live
High
Rise
Allow
Towers
Limited
Still
Go
Social
Land
Each
Millions
Millions Of People
We need to enter a new era to make nature and humans more emotionally connected in modern cities.
Ma Yansong
Nature
Enter
Cities
More
Emotionally
New
Make
New Era
Era
Modern
Connected
Humans
Need
People love to go closer to nature and other people, so we need to create environments that let people have these emotional connections.
Ma Yansong
Love
Nature
People
Other
Emotional
Environments
Go
Closer
Create
Connections
Need
I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature.
Ma Yansong
Nature
Architecture
Trying
Create
Landscape
Copying
There must be a way to combine the high rise and high-density environment with nature. Maybe we can have our gardens in the sky.
Ma Yansong
Nature
Sky
Our
Way
High
Must
Rise
Environment
Combine
Maybe
Gardens
Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture?
Ma Yansong
Nature
Culture
Architecture
Our
Ourselves
Has-Been
More
Since
Make
How
Leave
Been
Legacy
Discussing
Office
Behind
Human
Beijing
Want
Urban
Ask
Humankind
Need
Olympics
People can live in nature, and they won't necessarily destroy it.
Ma Yansong
Nature
People
Live
Destroy
Necessarily
Oscar Niemeyer really inspired me. He's from South America, where nature has meaning. And his architecture was not expensive or high tech but artistic and spiritual. I like that.
Ma Yansong
Nature
Spiritual
Me
Architecture
High
High-Tech
Inspired
He
Like
His
South
South America
America
Artistic
Expensive
Where
Meaning
Really
Tech
Oscar
I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!
Mackenzie Davis
Beautiful
Nature
Woman
Human Being
Too Much
Think
Too
Relate
Moore
Temple
Seems
Like
Most
She
Messing
Human
Being
Cannot
Much
Body
Who
Her
Treats
My dad is very environmentally conscious, and so I've always been close to nature.
Madelaine Petsch
Nature
Environmentally
Always
Been
Very
Close
Dad
Conscious
I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.
Maggie Q
Nature
Me
Natural
Car
Whatever
Way
Guns
Some
Physicality
Feel
Weirdly
Very
Whether
Reason
Second
Second Nature
The nature of things is dharma.
Mahavira
Nature
Things
Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Nature
Changes
Global
Undergo
Equations
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
Malcolm Boyd
Nature
Wish
Differences
Society
Our
Those
Both
Particular
Without
Integrated
Reference
Norm
Huge
Offensive
Quietly
Essential
Us
Who
Among
Deeply
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
Man Ray
Nature
Will
Others
Those
More
Only
Inspiration
Look
Course
Always
How
Curious
Information
While
Personally
Preferred
Ask
Who
Why
Technique
The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.
Manoj Bhargava
Nature
You
World
Insecure
More
Consume
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
Manuel Puig
Work
Nature
Long
Realistic
Films
Synthetic
Allegory
Developed
Terms
Story
Fantasy
Working
Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.
Marc Cherry
Work
Nature
Television
Some
Gems
Stuff
New
Course
Yes
New Stuff
Trying
Might
Episodic
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Marcel Proust
Nature
First
Neither
Habit
Prevents
Knowing
Nor
Which
Us
Second
Second Nature
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature
Mind
Virtue
Consistent
Habit
Moderation
Reason
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature
Man
Gifts
His
Than
Human
Children
Race
Sweeter
Human Race
Nature abhors annihilation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature
Abhors
Annihilation
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