If the conception of life is completely general (degree of life in everything), it will be much easier to design buildings, towns, and regions that are alive.

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• The degree of life is not merely a distinction between beautiful and ugly things but is detectable in every corner of the world.claim0.848
  Broadens the scope of life from aesthetics to a fundamental property.
• It is, then, this love of life which is embodied in the conception of a building, in its detail, in its execution - because the wholeness that people paid attention to really was the whole, really was all of life, and people were not ashamed or too frightened to respond to all of it in their actions as builders.claim0.835
  Love as the driving force of living creation.
• Life, as it occurs in buildings or in works of art, can be measured, but only by a method that relies on the degree of development or enlightenment of the observer.claim0.832
  The fundamental methodological conclusion of the chapter.
• We see then that life, as it occurs in buildings or in works of art, can be measured. But it can only be measured, or estimated, in a way which relies on the degree of development, or enlightenment, of the observer.quote0.831
  A key methodological statement encapsulating the chapter's conclusion.
• What we call 'life' is a general condition which exists, to some degree or other, in every part of space... every connected region of space... has some degree of life, and that this degree of life is well defined, objectively existing, and measurable.hypothesis0.825
  The central predictive/causal hypothesis of the book, to be tested in later chapters.
• the degree of life of different things and places and events is objective - not solely in the individualquote0.825
  Load-bearing assertion of objectivity, summarizing the chapter's thesis.
• Degree of life varies with relative configuration of surrounding centers, not absolute properties.claim0.822
• What we call 'life' is a general condition which exists, to some degree or other, in every part of space: brick, stone, grass, river, painting, building, daffodil, human being, forest, city.quote0.821
  Verbatim statement of the fundamental hypothesis, defining the scope of life.