Cities Quote by Geoffrey West Download Open image “Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.” — Geoffrey West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Forth Life Metaphors Obvious Roads
Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk… — John Norquist Copy Share Image
But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A city is half beast and half machine, with arteries of fresh water and veins of foul, nerves of telephone and electrical cables, sewer… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it, an alienation… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life.… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
“They say the city gets in your blood, but that's crap. The city doesn't become part of you... you become part of it. It… — Jeff Lemire Copy Share Image
A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times. — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on. — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Your cells are not working as hard as your dog's but harder than your horse's. The bigger the animal, the less energy needed to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“While exponential growth is a remarkable manifestation of our extraordinary accomplishments as a species, built into it are the potential seeds of our demise… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“The system we have evolved critically relies on people continually wanting new cars and new cell phones, new widgets and gadgets, new clothes and… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“Cities are sustained by similar network systems such as roads, railways, and electrical lines that transport people, energy, and resources and whose flow is… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
When you look at a city, you know, it looks so unique. You feel this kind of uniqueness, you know, and especially if you… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, then, the most surprising consequence of a visionary Theory of Everything is that it implies that on the grand scale the universe, including… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“It is all too often forgotten that the whole point of a city is to bring people together, to facilitate interaction, and thereby to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“The integration of these two kinds of networks, namely, the requirement that socioeconomic interaction represented by space-filling fractal-like social networks must be anchored to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“So why do almost all cities remain viable, whereas the vast majority of companies and organisms die?” — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
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