Modern City Quotes
- The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city. — Unknown Author
- You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about the environment. — Graham Hill
- The role of the animal messenger in the dreams of modern city-dwellers is often to recall us to our wild side, and the natural path… — Robert Moss
- The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city, reefs… — Jeremy Jackson
- The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise... — Alexis Carrel
- Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions… — Thomas Merton