Air Quote by Adrienne Rich

“Wherever in this city, screens flicker with pornography, with science-fiction vampires, victimized hirelings bending to the lash, we also have to walk . .…

— Adrienne Rich

“In all these sights I achieve solace only in bringing forth trees, picturing them blooming like smoke from the roofs of gutted buildings, dreaming…

— Tod Wodicka

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling…

— Muriel Barbery

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt…

— Diane Ackerman

The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this…

— Fritz Todt

Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“People need wild places. Whether or not we think we do, we do. We need to be able to taste grace and know again…

— Barbara Kingsolver

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their…

— Rem Koolhaas

“I should have moved to the forest long ago, I would think to myself, perhaps to the Black Forest although the place probably wasn't…

— Chloe Aridjis

We need to enter a new era to make nature and humans more emotionally connected in modern cities.

— Ma Yansong

We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times.

— Jens Jensen

Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've…

— Naveen Jain