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Lefebvre, H. 1991. The Production of space. (Tr. Nicholson-Smith, D.) Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
P95
"Let everyone look at the space around them. What do they see? Do they see time? They live time, after all; they are in time. Yet all anyone sees is movement. In nature, time is apprehended within space – in the very heart of space: the hour of the day, the season, the elevation of the sun above the horizon, the position of the moon and stars in the heavens, the cold and the heat, the age of each natural being.
Until nature became localized in underdevelopment, each place showed its age, like a tree trunk, bore the mark of the years it had taken it to grow. Time was thus inscribed in space...".
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