Ruin and renovation are like yin and yang, an interweaving in which one thread affects and influences the other. In ruins we can celebrate life and find hope, while in new building and making we can from the very beginning sense inevitable decay and dilapidation — a word directly related to the cascading, moss covered stone walls of New England. Every soulful moment and act requires this embrace of the living and the dying, and only an anxious heart is incapable of enjoying its dance.
— Thomas Moore, The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life