John Ruskin Quote

Everything about it [a building] should be natural, and should appear as if the influences and forces which were in operation around it had been too strong to be resisted, and had rendered all efforts of art to check their power, or conceal the evidence of their action, entirely unavailing.

The Poetry of Architecture: Cottage, Villa, Etc, The Cottage (p. 44), John Wiley & Sons. 1877