“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
“I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.” WorldWayMoralStepsGonePathTreeRootsDown AndForestsLionsNew WorldPioneersOld Trees Book:America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer Source: America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer
“If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it.” IfsGivingEyeEarthDesirePathTreeFameRootsSincerityObscurity Author:Abdullah ibn Mubarak
“When I walk, I try to set a fairly brisk rate. I love walking outside. I hate machines like treadmills. The path that I have chosen to walk is just city streets, but you see pretty houses, trees... my routes have some hills in them; it's not just straight walking. You have to exercise your heart and lungs.” TryingHeartHateHouseWalksCitiesPathTreeStreetsWalkingExerciseMachinesI HateRateChosenHillsRoutesLungsTreadmillsCity Streets Author:Rita Moreno
“Tariqah [The Spiritual Path] without the Sharia [Islamic Law] is like having a pistachio tree without the shell. Or a walnut, a walnut cannot grow on a tree without having a shell, and the food that you eat is inside the shell.” SpiritualLawGrowsPathTreeIslamicShellsSpiritual PathShariaWalnutsIslamic LawPistachios Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr