Human Scale Quotes
23 quotes by 23 authors
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Walking also enables us to watch a hole unfold in front of us. To walk a course is analogous to driving a long distance rather…
— Lorne Rubenstein
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The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary…
— David Korten
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The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places…
— Le Corbusier
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Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.
— Jan Gehl
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We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity,…
— Kenzo Tange
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To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.
— Peter Calthorpe
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The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place…
— Robert Bly
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I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale…
— Edward Hirsch
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years; there…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for…
— Helena Norberg-Hodge
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I didn't want to lose the human scale.
— Minoru Yamasaki
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Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for…
— Helena
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Personalizatio n wasn't supposed to be a cleverly veiled way to chase prospects around the web, showing them the same spammy ad for the same…
— Seth Godin
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An ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy development and can be continued into…
— Robert Gilman
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
— Andre Malraux
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The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
— Albert Camus
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Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact…
— Anthony Caro
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The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
— Freeman Dyson
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I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point…
— Harrison Ford
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is…
— Zadie Smith
Who Wrote These Human Scale Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 23 Human Scale Quotes as follows: