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“You cannot see the Milky Way in New York City any more ... We risk the loss of our sensual perception. And if you lose those, naturally, you try to compensate by other stimulations, by very loud noises, or by bright lights or drugs.”

Ifs Way Trying Light Loses Loss Cities Risk New York Drug Perception Noise Sensual Loud New York City Stimulation Milky Way Bright Lights Loud Noises

Author:Rene Dubos

“Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.”

Country Loss Cities Going Out Living In The City

Author:Christopher Bollen

“Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm to sinners. Aaron wore bells as well as pomegranates, and the prophets were commanded to lift up their voice like a trumpet. A sleeping sentinel may be the loss of the city.”

Should Wells May Sound Voice Loss Sleep Cities Watches Stones Miles Lifts Clock Ministers Prophet Sinner Bells Preaching Alarms Trumpets Sentinels Pomegranates

Author:Joseph Hall

“My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy, a cesspool of conformity and a life of indescribable dreariness in some split-level village where the place name appeared in the New York Times only when some bored housewife blew off her head with a shotgun.”

Source: John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings

“Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.”

Ifs World Used Energy Wealth Loss Results Cities Issues Evolve Consideration Our World Geography Biodiversity Congestion Redesign

Author:Jack Dangermond

“We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?”

Years Has Beens Wisdom Hands Loss Cities Five Hundred Letters Twenties Infinite Wit Temples Verses Castles Palaces Monument Miscellaneous Twenty Five Syllables

Book:The Advancement of Learning

Source: The Advancement of Learning

“There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about malls around the edges and suburbs. That was definitely a loss, because everything just gets homogenized. You can't tell where you are, it's all the same.”

Left Loss Cities Towns Edges Where You Are Suburbs Malls Hometown Kentucky

Author:Richard Hell

“You cannot suddenly make Lower Manhattan into a sad place because we saw such a dramatic loss of life. You have to balance the memory, which is so important, and use it as a kind of Archimedean Point to create a lively, incredibly interesting, and culturally significant piece of a city and neighborhood.”

Kind Important Use Memories Loss Interesting Cities Saws Pieces Balance Significant Dramatic Neighborhood Manhattan Lively

Author:Daniel Libeskind

“And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come bunt agin the rocks, as if they were bound to go right though to Jersey City, which they used to say was the end of the world.”

Ifs World Ends Used Loss Cities Sea Rocks Bounds Storm Disaster End Of The World Jersey Jersey City

Author:Laura E. Richards

“What helps me is watching other people negotiate loss. I think about how we dropped a bomb on people in Hiroshima and 150,000 people were killed in one night. Those people had to mourn and they had to rebuild their city right away.”

People Thinking Helping Night Loss Cities Bombs Help Me One Night Mourn Hiroshima

Author:Patti Smith

“Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- dark dreams and slow death, the death of children, suffering without grace or redemption, ultimate and eternal loss. The memory of the child stayed with him. But that was not to be the end of it, for reality went around in a twisting ring. Even the irredeemable would be redeemed, and there was a balance for everything. There had to be.”

“So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of what a city might at its best prove to be – its inhabitants became, and have remained, an embittered and amnesiac race, wounded but unable to connect through memory to the moment of injury, unable to summon the face of their violator.”

Moments Dream Might Faces Political Memories Loss Race Cities Particular Expression Materials Prove Innocence Injury Wounded Loss Of Innocence

Book:Against the Day

Source: Against the Day