I just finished "Home: A Short History of an Idea" by Witold Rybczynski. I am going to use this post as a record of a few sentences out of the book that I may need later for quoting.
pg 125 "Comfort was a generalized feeling of well-being, not something that could be studied or quantified."
pg 214 "Nostalgia for the past is often a sign of dissatisfaction with the present."
pg 217 "Domestic well-being is a fundamental human need that is deeply rooted in us, and that must be satisfied. If this need is not met in the present, it is not unnatural to look for comfort in tradition.
pg 231 "It may be enough to realize that domestic comfort involves a range of attributes-convenience, efficiency, leisure, ease, pleasure, domesticity, intimacy, and privacy- all of which contribute to the experience; common sense will do the rest."
Christopher Alexander in footnote: "A Pattern Language" (may need to read)
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