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“I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.”

“The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.”

Love Heart Bigs Song Turns Voice Animal Cities Tree Cry Wind Bird Ears Filled Loved Ones Sidewalk City Life Big Cities Wind In The Trees

Book:Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959

“The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.”

Mind Art Facts Running Form Turns Nature Cities Conditions Conscious Works Of Art Urban Caves Framework Ants City Life Mackerel

Author:Lewis Mumford

“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.”

Beautiful New York Design Hundred New York City Architect Catastrophe City Life Great Cities Beautiful City

Author:Le Corbusier

“There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.”

Want Humans Age Cities Middle Human Nature Summer Height Adolescence Middle Ages Absorbing City Life Sullen Fugue

Book:The tugman's passage

Source: The tugman's passage

“One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.”

Sound Cities City Life Great Cities Great Hope Birmingham

Author:Jane Austen

“Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.”

People Force Growth Cities Artificial Entertaining City Life Talkative

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.”

Men Believe I Believe Cities Twenties Paris City Life Older Women Odessa Demography

Book:Keeping a Rendezvous

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous

“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.”

Men Believe Age I Believe Sex Cities Changed Twenties London Teenager Paris Feminine Rome City Life Dickens Older Women Odessa Demography

Book:Keeping a Rendezvous

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous

“Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.”

Two War Facts Wealth Poor Cities Poverty Rich Economics Inequality Divided Plato City Life Urban Life War On Poverty

Book:The Portable Plato

Source: The Portable Plato

“It deals with so many different aspects of living in South Africa the racial issues of South Africans and Asians with poverty with the reality of children orphaned by AIDS the transition from village life to city life.”

Children Different Reality Deals Cities Poverty Issues Aspect South Aids Village Transition South Africa City Life Village Life

Author:Laura Thielen

“A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.”

Areas Neighborhood City Life

Author:John Ciardi

“In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.”

Has Beens Lasts Cities Four Century Rivers City Life Canals Amsterdam

Author:Janet Echelman

“Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.”

Life Ends Work Clear Cutting Balance Tasks Sacred Simplicity Complexity City Life Vex

Book:All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

“Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.”

Men Life Problem Christian Thousand Essence Simplicity Lips Seeking Complicated Cease Christian Life Minors Exalted City Life Complicated Things

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life”

Kind Whole Bigs Social Cities Impossible Property Notion Architecture Centre City Life Big Cities

Author:Joseph Rykwert

“You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives.”

Needs Cities Awakening Complexity Thrive Fast Paced City Life

Author:John de Ruiter

“There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.”

Cities New York Globes Sophistication City Life

Book:There ought to be a law--

Source: There ought to be a law--

“The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the United States, by 1918; before long, men would begin to see that the automobile, and the mass production techniques which made its possible, could alter the national character and morality more thoroughly than could the most absolute of tyrants. As a mechanical Jacobin, it rivaled the dynamo. The productive process which made these vehicles cheap was still more subversive of the old ways than was the gasoline engine itself.”

“A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.”

Able Life Is Individual Cities Known City Life Manifold Large Cities Cities At Night

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.”

Nations Cities Neglect Peril City Life Cities At Night

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962

“The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.”

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.”

Cities All Things Rome Flocks City Life Shameless Cities At Night

Author:Tacitus

“When in Rome, do as Rome does.”

Doe Cities Rome City Life

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city - as one loses oneself in a forest - that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.”

Way Wells May Different Names Speak Loses Cities Feet Streets Ignorance Oneself Bars Forests Roof Schooling City Life Wanderers Twigs Cities At Night

Book:Selected Writings: 1927-1934

Source: Selected Writings: 1927-1934

“Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.”

Form Cities New York Kings Essentials Faults California Charm Los Angeles Distinguished Earthquakes Pacific City Life Inferno Vertical Horizontal King Kong Cities At Night Blackouts

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.”

Firsts Cities Moral Intellectual Busy Principal Boston Trifles Nursery City Life Cities At Night

Author:George Santayana

“Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.”

Men Giving Said Cities New York London Nonsense City Life Collision Cities At Night City Of London

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“Either these - unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.”

People Country Cities Known Break Assuming Terror Enormous Communism Proportion Infidelity Reign City Life Cities At Night Reign Of Terror

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.”

World Cities Effects Revolution Intense Permanent Rebellious Circulation City Life Instantaneous Magnetism Cities In The World Cities At Night

Book:Cool memories

Source: Cool memories

“Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.”

People Earth Names Lost Language Common Cities Air Movement Connections Settling City Life Cities At Night

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.”

Home Numbers Cities City Life

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other. This is a lesson no one learns by being told. It is learned from the experience of having other people without ties of kinship or close friendship or formal responsibility to you take a modicum of responsibility for you.”

People Ifs Firsts Cities Responsibility Successful Lessons Fundamentals Ties Formal Close Friends City Life Kinship Close Friendship

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.”

Littles Cities Class Middle Grew Grew Up London Lifestyle Middle Class City Life

Author:Ed Westwick

“But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”

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