A quote from an old carpentry book.

[LuckyCharms]

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight, or present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them "See, this our father did for us"

~John Ruskin

[IbogaProject]

1. Cool quote

[CaptainTruth]

2. Nice! Thanks for sharing.

[Bayard]

3. Much nicer than, "Measure twice, cut once."

[AllaN01Bear]

4. like. thanks

[usaf-vet]

5. I believe the original source is:

That passage is from The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) by John Ruskin. It appears in the chapter The Lamp of Memory, where Ruskin emphasizes the importance of craftsmanship and building with a sense of permanence and reverence for the future.

[Hekate]

6. Yes. I know when I read it I thought, "Ah, Ruskin"

[onethatcares]

7. first building code

"If a man builds a house for another man and that house falls down, the builder shall be killed"

Second building code

"A man that builds a house without first knowing the cost is a fool"

I don't know who to ascribe them to, Sorry.

When starting out in the carpentry field 60 years ago I leaned on a book titled, "Wood structures for permanence". I wish I still had it.

[Niagara]

8. Holy knock me over quotes!

[Submariner]

9. This might be what Ruskin meant

This The Shining hallway, representative of hundreds of feet on 5 floors, is the result of DEI hire* immigrant construction of a former convent in 1909 Maine, and partially converted to a Shawshank Senior Living Center with approval of the Historical Society to preserve the building from the wrecking ball.

* = Because of shoddy DEI hire construction 116 years ago, the floors 'squeak' in some places on all floors.