City Quote by Jessica Stockholder

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

— George Gissing

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

— Robert Smithson

“Sleeping in the park in a city is a form of civilization. First, you need a city with enough bustle and clatter to make…

— Gurcharan Das

“the presence of buildings around a park is important in design. They enclose it. They make a definite shape out of the space, so…

— Jane Jacobs

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

— Michael Frome

Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in…

— John Hench

“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

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

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

— Robert Smithson

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

— Charles Bukowski

Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind…

— Michael Kenna

Park City is developing itself, almost to death.

— Robert Redford