“it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate and considerate and comforting as a little bit of a place where everybody knows everybody and everything, but astonishing or not it is perfectly true and the inhabitants of New York are just like that, and they are like that and this thing is a delightful, natural and gentle and sweet and comforting thing.” KnowsWorldShouldLittlesBitsNaturalCitiesNew YorkSweetLittle BitShould HavePopulationGentleIntimatePleasantSurprisingDelightfulComfortingAstonishingConsiderateCities In The WorldSurprising Things Book:How Writing Is Written Source: How Writing Is Written
“I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.” HumansI CanFeelingsNaturalSkyNew YorkBuildingGoes OnBedExcitingShoppingGet OverPencilsFloatsTaxiBuilderCanyonsErosion Book:Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46 Source: Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46
“The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.” WorldNaturalNew YorkSonAbsolutesMy SonMuseumsPlaces In The WorldNatural HistoryFavorite PlacesMuseum Of Natural History Author:Mark Teixeira
“Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.” BeautifulNaturalPerfectCitiesCasesTreeNew YorkEternalCloudsTinySettingSettingsAweNew York CityElegantBackyardsSidewalkSkyscraperAwe InspiringAuthentic Happiness Author:Gretchen Rubin