The first problem of living is to minimize friction with…

In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern…

— Peter Diamandis

During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering secret meditation…

— Frederick Lenz

By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was…

— Jason Epstein

The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help in this.…

— H. Bentley Glass

“Proxemics is the study of human use of space and the effects that population density has on behavior, social interaction, and communication. Imagine invisible…

— Susan C. Young

Living in areas with a high population density does not need to be synonymous with overcrowding. Manhattan has an extremely dense population and is…

— Mark Walport

In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density,…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

“The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness; but by the end of the twenty-first century there was no region left on…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large…

— Minoru Mori

Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up into the…

— Frederick Lenz

The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us,…

— Derek Landy

The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I.

— Maria Dahvana Headley

“When this uneasy feeling forms, in a context of awareness, the person is thereby already living beyond the problem, already living in and toward…

— Ann Weiser Cornell

That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.

— Amor Towles