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“The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.”

Men Needs Mind Children Body Desire Goal President Community Cities Quality Beauty Talent Demand Concerned Hunger Presidential Goods Quantity Commerce Great Society

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her alight.”

Cities Beauty Youth Strikes Idealism Beaten

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.”

Lying Cities Beauty Morning Air Sky Fields Silent Theatre Ships Temples Towers Garments City Life Domes Cities At Night

Author:William Wordsworth

“What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.”

Cities Beauty Kings Size Ugliness City Life

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.”

Enjoy Nature Cities Silence Beauty Arms Welcome Reach Out Sheep Dread Crowded Fleeing Her Beauty Crowded Cities

Author:Khalil Gibran

“The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.”

Men Firsts Given Natural Cities Beauty Sight Blind Senses Cease Phenomenon Prisoner Blind Man Dwellers

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial . . . Christmas trees . . . but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence; yes, and its beauty, too.”

“Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.”

World Trying Cities Beauty Missing New York Competition Surprise South New York City Carolina South Carolina Pageant Beauty Pageant

Author:Donna Rice Hughes

“The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.”

Bigs Spiritual Cities Beauty Clear Protect Hunger Landscape Damage Homeland Big Cities Uncontrollable Uncontrollable Urge

Author:Fritz Todt