“Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.” FeelsLittlesStatesStarsWaterRealizingWalksAnimalUnitedCitiesUnited StatesTreeSkyHavensWindColdLimitsPlantWestSmellSnowDesertSandNativeWildernessRefugeGalaxySuburbsPlaces To GoPlants And AnimalsCold WaterCoyotesPine TreesDesert SandFresh Snow Author:John Muir
“Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: "Is there no speed limit in this mad city?" "Oh, yes, monsieur," she answered sweetly over her shoulder, "but no one has ever succeeded in reaching it."” WarCitiesLimitsSightMadSpeedShouldersFamiliarWheelsReachingDriversCriedTaxiDismaySpeed Limits Author:Alexander Woollcott
“New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.” SeemsCitiesFiguresNew YorkBecomingLimitsGratefulTrafficChaotic Author:Patti LuPone
“A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.” FormNumbersCitiesLimitsQuartersUrbanAutonomousSmall NumbersFederationPeriphery Author:Leon Krier
“Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be considered "murder" in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons within city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or other misdemeanor.” IfsShouldWarStatesPeaceCitiesSupportLimitsCreatingWeaponsClaimsMurderKillingRefuseProtectionTrafficOffenseAnarchistHazardsPacifistMisdemeanors Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.” PurposeCitiesStreetsLimitsHostMerchantsSwarmsSolicitors Author:Charles Fourier
“In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.” CitiesLimitsPlanningFixedCity Planning Author:Willis Polk
“To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from New York. You can be half a mile outside of the city limits; you're two hours away by car. I don't care how close they tell you it is. "Oh, it's only thirty miles." Thirty miles? At 8:30 in the morning, thirty miles outside New York, you might as well be starting out in Omaha.” FirstsWellsTwoMightCareHoursCitiesHalfMorningCarNew YorkLimitsWasteStartingDon't CareMilesI Don't CareThirtyWasting TimeStarting OutOmahaCommuting Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Water is an astonishingly complex and subtle force in an economy. It is the single constraint on the expansion of every city, and bankers and corporate executives have cited it as the only natural limit to economic growth.” ForceGrowthWaterNaturalCitiesEconomyEconomicLimitsComplexesCorporateSubtleExecutivesExpansionEconomic GrowthBankersConstraints Author:Margaret Catley-Carlson
“'m constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"” MindFirstsMeanTwoLanguageCitiesFiveCenturyThousandLimitsMembersSixTwentiesMovedCaughtEastTinyMilesBlockBordersVillageGangMexicanGhettoThousand MilesGrannyGang Members Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.” HeartCitiesDarknessLimitsLeavingFrightenedNew OrleansWastelandDuncesHeart Of Darkness Book:A Confederacy of Dunces Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.” WayMadeSaidLanguageWalksCitiesPossibilityWalkingLimitsArchitectureWalkers Author:Rebecca Solnit
“Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.” HumansLightCitiesBehindsLimitsArgumentTragicFadesCity Lights Book:(The Great Gatsby) Source: (The Great Gatsby)
“Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.” SaidStillsWarUseCitiesLimitsWeaponsWindowStaringStaring Out The Window Book:Goliath Source: Goliath