Cities Quote by Amos Bronson Alcott

“For all the allure of speciously stress-free suburbs, for all the grinding of city life, cities endure. And when all those diverse energies are…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they…

— Joseph Paxton

Each hamlet or village or town should be a place, its own place. This is not a matter of fake historicism or artsy-craftsy architecture.…

— Robert Christopher Riley

...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city…

— David Fairchild

“All that remains of the garden city in our own day are traffic-free enclaves, islands in a sea of traffic where the pedestrian leads…

— Tom McDonough

For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer…

— Rose Wilder Lane

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.

— John Howard Payne

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than…

— Abbas Kiarostami

The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson