“The process of categorisation is as old as men, yet as old as man alone, for no other animal species categorises itself… — Joshua Krook Copy Share Image
“[Poem: Slates of Grey] Sullen faces like slates of grey— What I’d seen on a walk today. Bodies rushing bodies bolting Time… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
The conditions of city life may be made healthy, so far as the physical constitution is concerned; but there is connected with… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The city had seemed like a great place to discover who you are. It just seemed that there was a lot to… — Sari Botton Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“To say it's the poor quality of the paint under socialism is correct, but it is not enough. To say it's soft-coal… — Slavenka Drakulić Copy Share Image
“In quantum physics, particles change when they’re observed. But this isn’t quantum: my book doesn’t alter by being seen or unseen. It… — S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour Copy Share Image
This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It was the farm they'd bought down at the edge of the Cape ... The very edge of the world, ... It… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It (urban peacekeeping) was quite a task, requiring a permanent balancing act between communities, each with their own interests, festivals, traditions and… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
Melbourne City is an awesome city. You can get everything: You can get open air. You can get city life. You can… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
“There is no rural life in a countryman’s dream and there is no city life in a townsman’s dream! We often dream… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Yet for quixotic reasons--namely, that I enjoyed writing obits--I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I loved this-living as part of a community...Short of living on a commune, how could I import the feeling of belonging somewhere… — Julie Tilsner Copy Share Image
“Magnus threw the monkey a fig. The monkey took the fig. "There," said Magnus. "Let us consider the matter settled." The monkey… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Once it was the fashion to represent villages as places inhabited by laughable, livable simpletons, unspotted by the worldliness of city life,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries, — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
