Quote by Gerard K. O'Neill

Many of the green places and open spaces that need protecting most today are in our own neighborhoods. In too many places, the beauty…

— Al Gore

“The urban sprawl of squat earthen buildings trailed into the woods, layered, unobtrusive, camouflaged by nature, inadvertent interruptions to the greenways. The”

— Maurice Broaddus

“I know again why I favor it so much here, how I esteem the hush of this suburban foliage in every season, the surprising…

— Chang-rae Lee

“Natural places are no different than human cities. The old exists next to the new. Invasive species integrate with or push out native species.…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“the abandoned traffic lights stare at us like empty eye sockets. Fields have gone to weed. There’s a little town of houses that have…

— Lauren DeStefano

“The future of wildlife and the habitat that they depend on is being destroyed. It is time to make nature and all the beauty…

— Paul Oxton

“The seed of an urban legend finding fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Imagine cities that resemble forests, technologies that heal rather than harm, and societies rooted in balance and cooperation.”

— Ken Breniman

“Behind a barbed-wire fence, a dirt road disappears into the distance in the pine trees and corners. Lost, dead roads, no ends or remaining…

— Tim Gilmore This Kind of City Ghost stories and psychological landscapes

We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times.

— Jens Jensen

“We came to woodlands, with leaves unfurling on every branch, as if one blow of spring's green hammer had set them exploding from the…

— Mark Lawrence

Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.

— Margaret Fuller