Cities Quote by George Gissing

In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the…

— Jessica Stockholder

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

— Robert Smithson

Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass,…

— Ben Aaronovitch

“Contemporary attitudes toward urban parks fall into three levels of sophistication. The first, the most naive assumption, is that parks are just plots of…

— Galen Cranz

Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again…

— John James Ingalls

Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.

— Wendell Berry

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

— Robert Smithson

I don't know of a single park without serious environmental problems.

— Michael Frome

The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.

— Charles Bukowski

There hath grown no grass on my heels since I went hence.

— Nicholas Udall

“Our lawns manifest our cultural desire: they are static, they are artificial, and they are kept sexually immature.”

— Derrick Jensen

“Parks, plazas, gardens, and rooftops are culture-producing places, not merely place for retreat. Sidewalks and bridges become ends in themselves instead of just a…

— Sally A. Kitt Chappell