Christopher Alexander

The Nature of Order book1
p306
...someone you love very much. Imagine you are comfortable, happy,
loving, and childish with this person- also vulnerable, and not afraid
of being vulnerable. Perhaps you may even feel like a little
five-year-old in the degree of your trust and vulnerability...

p315
Liking something from the heart means that it makes us more whole in
ourselves. It has a hearling effect on us. It makes us more human. It
even increases the life in us.

Making such things will also make us feel wholesome.
..As we find out which things awaken real liking in ourselves, we find
ourselves more in touch than before with our own selves.

Each thing that we like or do not like may be tested for its staying power.

expanding and contracting of our humanity

good and fucntional structures achieve their quality from a conscrious
effort by the maker ot make the geometric field of centers.

biological and ecological systems as self-sustaining and self-creating
networks: also architecture, art, cities...