"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"

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• The quality of life includes us as human beings; a place with the deepest life is one where I reach a deeper level of life inside myself.claim0.815
  Emphasizes the experiential, transformative dimension of life in built environments.
• Life is structural, a quality that comes about because of the existence of a discernible structure in the wholeness.claim0.809
  The central thesis of the chapter, setting up the explanation of how life emerges.
• The quality of living centers requires the positive-ness and thus the being-ness of each part that lies between two parts.claim0.807
  Claim that the spaces between elements must themselves be living centers.
• The quality of uniqueness is a quality of particularity which stems only from necessity.claim0.805
  States that genuine uniqueness arises from adapting to real constraints, not from arbitrary variety.
• The core of a living process—whether a building is large or small—is that it comes from people, from their inner desires—and genuinely does so; that it meets their archetypal core, and thereby makes them feel at homequote0.803
  Concise statement of the people-centered foundation of living process.
• Life is a pervasive quality that includes ordinary biological life but also a kind of life in stones, concrete, and wood posts.claim0.799
  Summarizes the chapter’s view that life exists in the very materials of a building.
• This quality, whether it occurs in a great work or a small work, always has the same essential purpose: to make a connection to the I, to reach, in material substance, the face of God.claim0.798
  The purpose of all living quality is to connect to the I.
• 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.quote0.798
  Verbatim statement of the fundamental hypothesis, defining the scope of life.