Best Open Spaces Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“He had been haunted his whole life by a mild case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome. Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him. It manifested itself in subtle ways. He avoided enclosed sports like racquetball or squash, and he had gladly paid a small fortune for his airy, high-ceilinged Victorian home even though economical faculty housing was readily available. Langdon had often suspected his attraction to the art world as a young boy sprang from his love of museums’ wide open spaces.”

Source: Angels & Demons

“How good it is to look sometimes across great spaces, to lift one’s eyes from narrowness, to feel the large silence that rests on lonely hills!”

Nature Sky Hills Infinity Open Spaces

Book:The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen

Source: The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen

“Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high ground, open space and paths.”

Walking Paths Open Spaces High Ground

Book:The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

Source: The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

“San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.”

Wells Community Space Cities Behinds Providing Urban San Francisco Lag Open Spaces Canopy

Author:Gavin Newsom

“The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.”

Thinking Humans Nature Space Quality Critical Saving Welfare Quality Of Life Wildlife Open Spaces Wildlife Conservation Animal Conservation

Author:Jim Fowler

“I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.”

Feels Littles Made Enjoy Space Four South Climate Wide Miles Islands Pacific Open Spaces Wide Open Spaces

Author:Matthew Fox

“Every time I see open space I see a mat on the floor”

Space Open Spaces

Author:Renzo Gracie

“My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces.”

Wanted Grows Parent Space Growing Up Horse Open Spaces

Author:Schuyler Fisk

“If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity.”

Ifs Space Views Tree Sky Prove Ancient Forests Spots Height Branches Midst Shade Thick Veils Exceptional Deities Unbroken Grove Seclusion Open Spaces Ancient Trees

Author:Seneca the Younger

“And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things that contributes to the high level of quality of life that we offer in Pennsylvania, and that also translates into economic benefits.”

Purpose Space Levels Quality Economic Offers Benefits Translate Quality Of Life Recreation High Level Pennsylvania Open Spaces

Author:Ed Rendell

“Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills.”

Men World Christian Space Walks Divine Stranger Revelations Persevere Open Spaces Divine Revelation Untamed

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.”

Space White Painting Viewers Entry Open Spaces White Space

Author:Norbert Bisky

“When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.”

“Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.”

Thinking Humans Two Body Song Space Fields Bones Flesh Obsessed Visuals Two Things Countryside Anatomy Open Spaces

Author:Ellie Goulding

“The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.”

“I'm a London lad, but I'm fascinated by America. I want to take a motorcycling trip across the country and see those wide open spaces.”

Want Country America Space Wide London Fascinated Lad Open Spaces Wide Open Spaces

Author:Charlie Cox

“In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.”

Dies Culture Space Acting Air Havens Fields Judging Listening Tasks Eternity Absolutes Infinite Forgiving Dues Breathe Planning Finite Contingency Open Spaces

Author:Eugen Drewermann

“There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane.”

Want Enough Facts Term Hours Space Cities Wonderful Huge Conversation London Theatre Insane Cinema Facility Oxford Bookshops Open Spaces Metropolitan

Author:Mark Haddon

“My two primary areas of focus have been open-space conservation and education, and I expect those to remain my priorities in the future. The Irvine open space and parklands provide serenity and balance to our unique Orange County lifestyle.”

Has Beens Two Space Focus Balance Unique Areas Priorities Lifestyle Primaries Serenity Conservation Orange County Open Spaces Orange County

Author:Donald Bren

“High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do not help create open space, they destroy the townscape, they destroy social life, they promote crime, they make life difficult for children, they are expensive to maintain, they wreck the open spaces near them, and they damage light and air and view.”

Source: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

“There's nothing that builds up a toil-weary soul Like a day on a stream, Back on the banks of the old fishing hole Where a fellow can dream. There's nothing so good for a man as to flee From the city and lie Full length in the shade of a whispering tree And gaze at the sky. . . . . It is good for the world that men hunger to go To the banks of a stream, And weary of sham and of pomp and of show They have somewhere to dream. For this life would be dreary and sordid and base Did they not now and then Seek refreshment and calm in God's wide, open space And come back to be men.”

“Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.”

Men Made Choices Space Sky Offers West Wide Frontiers Manhattan Grids Skyscraper Open Spaces Wild West Wide Open Spaces

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.”

Needs Bigs Culture Stuff Space Cities Silence Middle Listening Grew Grew Up Horse Contemporary Grass Mexico Riding Bugs Big Cities Open Spaces New Mexico Bombarded Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Tom Ford

“I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.”

Bigs America Moving Space Keep Moving Open Spaces

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“A luxury meal was prairie sandwiches - two slices of bread with wide-open spaces between them.”

Two Humor Funny Space Wide Bread Luxury Meals Sandwiches Space Between Prairie Open Spaces Wide Open Spaces

Author:Chic Murray

“I think it could be argued that I am not heard, in the broadest sense. That is not my concern. My concern, a question really, is, do I have the courage to speak? If I speak I believe someone will respond. It then becomes my responsibility to listen to that person. And in listening, together we create a space where people can be heard. It's the conversation that I care most deeply about; this is the space I want to honor, respect, and protect. This is my faith in the open space of democracy.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Believe Persons Care Together Speak I Believe Space Responsibility Democracy Heard Listening Honor Protect Conversation Concern I Care Open Spaces

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“As children, we had access to all the open space imaginable. We would set up camps in rural Utah where the Tempest Company was at work laying pipe. We spent time around the West in Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Colorado. Wild beautiful places. Now, many of these natural places have disappeared under the press of development.”

Children Beautiful Natural Space Company Development Presses West Access Camps Pipe Tempest Colorado Beautiful Places Utah Idaho Open Spaces Wyoming Nevada

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.”

Space West Open Spaces

Author:David Hockney

“Where you need to make fast decisions, people have to work in an open space where I can just walk to somebody's cube, so we don't need to schedule meetings for absolutely everything.”

People Needs I Can Space Decision Walks Meetings Schedules Cubes Open Spaces

Author:Marcelo Claure

“I think a current understanding about urban behavior tells us that it's important that people get out and be able to get away from the concrete jungles and the dense environment where they live for their own mental well-being. If they don't do this, the costs in human loss and human sickness will be far greater than what we would be expending for these kinds of releases and open spaces.”

“Many of the green places and open spaces that need protecting most today are in our own neighborhoods. In too many places, the beauty of local vistas has been degraded by decades of ill-planned and ill-coordinated development.”

Needs Has Beens Today Space Development Green Ill Decades Locals Neighborhood Vistas Open Spaces

Author:Al Gore

“Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.”

Men Made Space Cities Quality Known Greater Sky Offers Machines West Wide Quantity Uncertain Frontiers Laboratory Skyscraper Open Spaces Wild West Wide Open Spaces

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.”

People Important Community Space Movement Taught Democratic Library Aids Discussion Mutual Cooperation Participation Supportive Open Spaces Health System Occupy Movement Mutual Aid

Author:Noam Chomsky

“While the foods were being prepared, I watched as men dragged a foot-operated grinding wheel into an open space, and the groom devoted a tense hour to putting a razor's edge to a large, ornate dagger. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl.”

Ifs Men Use Eye Girl Father Hours Space Effort Feet Weapons Prepared Edges Critical Accepted Wheels Satisfying Knives Devoted Tense Brides Razors Daggers Open Spaces Mistreat

Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us.”

People Want Desire Next Community Space Cities Millions Intense Urban Contradictory Facility Utopia Open Spaces Small Communities

Author:Moshe Safdie

“Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.”

World Natural Space Particular Towns Setting Settings Marvelous Small Town Natural World Texture Exhilarating Small Town Life Open Spaces Marvelous Things

Author:Susan Orlean

“I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit. Vast open spaces speak best to this craving, the spaces I myself first found in the desert and then in the western grasslands.”

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.”

Ifs Believe Done Space Space Between Open Spaces Brokeback Mountain

Book:Close Range: Wyoming Stories

Source: Close Range: Wyoming Stories

“By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my old neighborhood. I shielded my eyes. This being early October, there were already piles of leaves pushed against the curb—more leaves than I remembered from my autumns here—andless open space in the sky. I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.”

Thinking Home Eye House Memories Space Morning Sun Tree Sky Havens Remembered Neighborhood Autumn Horizon October Curb Open Spaces Morning Sun Old Neighborhood

Book:For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.”

Men Humans Desire Girl Ability Space Cities Boys Men And Women Direct Fellows Administration Human Life League Wilderness Fellow Man Boy And Girl Open Spaces

Author:Edward Abbey

“We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though the only frontier that remains is that vast open space between the SUV and strip mall. We are our past.”

Wells Past Spirit Space Remains Currents Instance Our Past Frontiers Geography Malls Space Between Open Spaces Suvs

Book:The Geography of Bliss

Source: The Geography of Bliss

“Have you ever thought about the grid of Manhattan?' It's like...a metaphor for life. You think you have the freedom to walk anywhere. But in fact... you are strictly controlled. Up or down. Left or right. Nothing in between. No other options.' Life should be like an open space...you should be able to walk in whatever direction you choose.”

Thinking Should Facts Able Left Space Walks Metaphor Controlled You Choose Manhattan Grids Open Spaces

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.”

Way Looks Kind Space England Awful Reaching Countryside Iowa Distressing Open Spaces English Countryside Hedgerows

Author:Bill Bryson

“The cats at the edge of the clearing were staring up at the sky, their eyes huge with fear. As he looked upward, Fireheart heard the beating of wings and saw a hawk circling above the trees, its harsh cry drifting on the air. At the same time he realized that one cat had not taken shelter; Snowkit was tumbling and playing in the middle of the open space. "Snowkit!" Speckletail yowled desperately.”

Eye Space Taken Saws Heard Air Tree Sky Middle Cry Huge Cat Wings Edges Staring Shelter Harsh Drifting Hawks Clearing Open Spaces Tumbling

Author:Erin Hunter

“King-sized? It would take up all my space. I need wide-open spaces." She glanced at Kane for help, but he was rolling around on a matress and moaning in a loud, orgasmic manner. She rolled her eyes and heaved a sigh.”

Needs Helping Eye Space Kings Wide Loud Rolling Her Eyes Sigh Moaning Open Spaces My Space Wide Open Spaces

Author:Christine Feehan

“Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.”

Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)

“There is a foundation for our lives, a place in which our life rests. That place is nothing but the present moment, as we see, hear, experience what is. If we do not return to that place, we live our lives out of our heads. We blame others; we complain; we feel sorry for ourselves. All of these symptoms show that we're stuck in our thoughts. We're out of touch with the open space that is always right here.”

Ifs Feels Moments Shows Space Our Lives Return Blame Foundation Sorry Complaining Stuck Present Moment Our Thoughts Symptoms Open Spaces

Author:Joko Beck

“It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there. We must first of all bring them there. We must survey them there. We must master them there. In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there. Have you tried that? Or have you been satisfied to meet and fight your foes in the open spaces of the world?”

“America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.”

Today America Nature Wealth Space Environment Land Environmental Noise Pollution Ugliness Shrinking Vanishing Pinnacle America Today Blight Open Spaces

Book:The Quiet Crisis

Source: The Quiet Crisis

“People need open space. People need to bring their children into an area where they can play without restriction." And I was told, "This is development." And I said, "That is not development, definitely not sustainable development, definitely not responsible development. People need fresh air. They can do without buildings. They can do without concrete. But they cannot do without fresh air.”

People Needs Children Said Play Can Do Space Environment Air Building Development Areas Responsible Concrete Restriction Sustainable Development Fresh Air Open Spaces

Author:Wangari Maathai

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