Cities Quote by Geoffrey West Download Open image “Cities are the crucible of civilization.” — Geoffrey West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Civilization Crucible Culture
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
There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
“Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“But ideal cities are very much the product of their own ages. Designed as complete urban statements, they bear the unmistakable imprint of their… — Anonymous 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