Pastoral Resources

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.

The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.

As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down.

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.