“There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,-- But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.” MenSoulSelfStarsSidesPathLet MeRanLive ByHighwaysHospitalityPioneersHermitsFirmament Author:Sam Walter Foss
“We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways, we restricted car use. We invested in high-quality sidewalks, pedestrian streets, parks, bicycle paths, libraries; we got rid of thousands of cluttering commercial signs and planted trees. All our everyday efforts have one objective: Happiness.” PeopleChildrenUseEffortCitiesQualityPathTreeStreetsCarBuildingEverydayLibraryObjectivesParksHighwaysAutomobileBicycleSidewalkHigh QualityPedestrians Author:Enrique Penalosa
“What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the "sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind." Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?” IfsMenFeelsHumansOrderRacePathFailingMankindPossibilityCriminalsTraditionalDespiteHuman RaceUnconsciousTragicBoresGlobesHighwaysExileObligedCalamityFugitiveNew Possibilities Book:Peace and Bread in Time of War Source: Peace and Bread in Time of War
“And though behind you lies a road of dust and heat and discouragement, and before you the challenge and uncertainty of untried paths, in this brief hour you are master of all highways, and the universe nestles in your soul.” SoulLyingUniverseHoursChallengesBehindsPathMastersDustYour SoulUncertaintyHeatHighwaysBehind YouDiscouragement Author:Max Ehrmann
“Guided by film...we approach, if at all, ideas no longer on highways leading through the void but on paths that wind through the thicket of things.” IfsIdeasFilmPathWindApproachVoidHighwaysThickets Author:Siegfried Kracauer
“I think that today, integration is the name of the game and not separating these things out, and not trying to find the razor's edge, the narrow path. There's a lot of lanes in the highway, the trick is not fall into the ditches on either side, like a one sided nihilism, nothing matters life.” ThinkingTryingMatterTodayFallGamesNamesSidesPathEdgesTricksIntegrationHighwaysNihilismLanesRazorsSeparatingOne SidedNothing MattersNarrow Path Author:Surya Das