If we examine the feelings that accompany daily life, we find that historic monuments occupy a small place. - Kevin A. Lynch

Leisure is now possible for many , and customs of timing are more obvious and less absolute. Time has become both more valuable and also more subject to reallocation.

Accumulated literary associations add depth to the experience; place names become pegs for layers of commentaries, as in the Chinese culture. But at base the emotional pleasure is a heightened sense of the flow of time.

An environment that cannot be changed invites its own destruction.