Spaciousness and Crowding

These are the best sentences from Chapter 5 of Space and Place.

Human lives are a dialectical movement between shelter and venture, attachment and freedom...A healthy being welcomes constraint and freedom, the boundedness of place and the exposure of space.

Solitude is a condition for acquiring a sense of immensity.

Etiquette and rudeness are opposite means to the same end: helping people to avoid contact when such contact threatens to be too intense.

Living constantly in a small, close-knit group tends to curtail the enlargement of human sympathy in two antipodal directions: toward one pole, an intimacy between unique individuals that transcends camaraderie and kinship ties; and toward the other, a generalized concern for human welfare everywhere.

The world feels spacious and friendly when it accommodates our desires, and cramped when it frustrates them.

I've got to say this is the best chapter of the book, so far.