It is our birthright to surround ourselves with this natural world, to be skillful at doing it, and to enjoy the benefits.

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• The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.788
• The life which seems best in our world comes from efforts that are uncensored, natural and straightforward, from impulses close to our emotions and joy.claim0.782
  Alexander's opening assertion about the character of true modern life.
• "There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named"quote0.778
  Verbatim quote from Alexander (1979, p.19) defining the Quality Without a Name, used to motivate the exploration.
• It embraces nature, and makes nature, and is nature.claim0.774
• The capacity for everyone to enter either one from anywhere — to have both belong-to worlds to hand — is the essence of the structure that living processes will generate in society.claim0.772
  Defines the ultimate spatial outcome of living process: simultaneous access to private sanctuary and public communion
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.771
  Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.
• The process by which a person comes in touch with wholeness is linked to human growth, self-knowledge, and discovery of the true self.claim0.771
• In order to create living structure, we must please ourselves.claim0.770
  The central thesis of the chapter: pleasing yourself is the necessary and sufficient prescription for creating living structure.