Sprawl Quotes

25 quotes by 24 authors

I've been called other things too, and some of them uncomplimentary and sexist like the 'Queen of Sprawl', 'Attila the Hen,' 'The Mom who runs… — Hazel McCallion
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American… — Frank N. Ikard
The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large city,… — Minoru Mori
There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties,… — Preston Manning
Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights and sounds, the… — Tony Hiss
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy. — Robert Smithson
I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation… — James Howard Kunstler
When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground… — Dave Barry
[T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the government provides Aid… — Mona Charen
Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. — Richard Lamm
A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save… — Stewart Udall
There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book. — Witold Rybczynski
Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill. — Michelle Malkin
McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did… — Eric Schlosser
Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel… — William Gibson
The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with… — Michael Parenti
I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The… — Theodore Roethke
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl… — Neil Gaiman
The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl. — Leon Krier

Who Wrote These Sprawl Quotes

24 authors contributed a total of 25 Sprawl Quotes as follows: