--- title: "1 Experience Past Quotes By Michael Puttonen" description: "1 Experience Past quotes by Michael Puttonen. Plus more from Michael Puttonen and more Experience Past sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dad/michael-puttonen-64344_city_a-city-finds-its-life-through-the-humans_2681475.jpg" --- > [“A city finds its life through the humans who inhabit it. When they go, what is truly left? Just silent stones, witnesses to the history but mute in its telling, remaining thus while slowly turning to rubble. It saddens me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-puttonen/a-city-finds-its-life-through-the-humans-who-inhabit-it-when-they-go/) [Michael Puttonen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-puttonen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dad/michael-puttonen-64344_city_a-city-finds-its-life-through-the-humans_2681475.jpg) ## More by Michael Puttonen > [“He claimed that no act or thought that did not have love as its purpose was of God. Love was the secret of God’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-puttonen/he-claimed-that-no-act-or-thought-that-did-not-have-love-as-its/) [Michael Puttonen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-puttonen/) > [“Brilna, meanwhile, had attached a vacant look to her face, one that she applies when confused, a common occurrence, thus a frequent application.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-puttonen/brilna-meanwhile-had-attached-a-vacant-look-to-her-face-one-that-she/) [Michael Puttonen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-puttonen/) > [“When the wind blows here, it is your wind; and when the water gurgles among the rocks, it speaks only to you. The mountain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-puttonen/when-the-wind-blows-here-it-is-your-wind-and-when-the-water-gurgles/) [Michael Puttonen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-puttonen/) > [“This will not be my fate,” I said firmly, confidently. “And it won’t be Lillatta’s and maybe not even yours, though that might be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-puttonen/this-will-not-be-my-fate-i-said-firmly-confidently-and-it-won-t-be/) [Michael Puttonen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-puttonen/) > [“A city finds its life through the humans who inhabit it. When they go, what is truly left? Just silent stones, witnesses to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-puttonen/a-city-finds-its-life-through-the-humans-who-inhabit-it-when-they-go/) [Michael Puttonen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-puttonen/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/experience-past/michael-puttonen/#itemlist", "name": "1 Experience Past Quotes By Michael Puttonen", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“A city finds its life through the humans who inhabit it. When they go, what is truly left? Just silent stones, witnesses to the history but mute in its telling, remaining thus while slowly turning to rubble. It saddens me that life’s moments are thus lost, that one cannot experience the past in the same rich vibrancy as the present. 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