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“These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by association or will ... They saturate themselves into every part of the body and live always.”

Body Beautiful Memories Vision Seeing Wall Mere Awe Touched Maps Association Hung Parts Of The Body Beautiful Day

Book:John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

“It had come to me not in a sudden epiphany but with a gradual sureness, a sense of meaning like a sense of place. When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for you when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.”

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos -- of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings -- in the vain hope that at the end he will see that the whole thing represents only one moment, one feeling, one person. A raging, trumpeting jungle of associations, and then I announce at the end of it, with a gesture of despair, "This is I!”

Writing Trying Persons Ends Whole Moments Feelings Action Memories Reader Despair Chaos Wide Rage Unhappy Reactions Vain Association Gestures Jungle Always Trying Action And Reaction

Book:Blue Voyage: A Novel

Source: Blue Voyage: A Novel

“It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiæ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.”

“Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.”

People Writing Has Beens Today Past House Memories Marriage Streets Century Fields Difficulty Lips Chiefs Association Echoes English Words

Author:Virginia Woolf

“It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.”

Way Reality Moving Memories Produce Distance Faculty Association Far Away Pictorial Back To Reality

Book:Paul Klee notebooks

Source: Paul Klee notebooks

“Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and ungentle passions looked out, hideous and hateful. On the other hand, there are faces which the multitude, at first glance, pronounce homely, unattractive and such as "Nature fashions by the gross," which I always recognize with a warm heart-thrill. Not for the world would I have one feature changed; they please me as they are; they are hallowed by kind memories, and are beautiful through their associations.”

“Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.”

Thinking Facts Understanding Imagination Memories Brain Teach Association Irrelevant Linear Think Of Me

Author:Tony Buzan

“The color and spectacle of Mexico's streets sparked my interest in community driven space and experience, a passion that I began to develop while studying architecture at Syracuse University and then at the Architectural Association School in London. Having been immersed in such a diverse array of lively environments, it would be impossible for me not to use these memories and experiences as inspiration for my work.”

“Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.”

Imagination Memories Smell Sentiments Association Good Memories

Book:Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table

Source: Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table

“Because who can describe that look that triggers the memory of loved ones? Who can anticipate the frown, the smile, or the misplaced lock of hair that sends a swift, undeniable signal from the past? Who can ever estimate the power of association, which is always strongest in moments of love and in memories of death?”

Looks Moments Past Memories Hair Strongest Association Loved Ones Locks Signals Triggers Anticipate Misplaced Moments Of Love

Book:A Widow For One Year

Source: A Widow For One Year

“Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches of words and images continually intermingle and exchange one for the other.”

Art Moments Language Memories Photograph Association

Author:Victor Burgin