City parks Quote by Kate Braverman

“A city is judged by the beauty of the children's parks.”

— Amit Ray

“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

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

— John Hench

“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 park was littered with couples kissing behind trees and making out on park benches. And paper stars were everywhere; in trees, on the…

— Chelsea Fine

The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people…

— Jane Jacobs

“...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and…

— Toni Morrison

And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.

— Christo

“Yes, indeed. San Francisco was the perfect place for a walker between worlds like Jamie Hastings to grow up in. Her soul had chosen…

— Patricia Cori

“We arrived at Council Bluffs at dawn; I looked out. All winter I’d been reading of the great wagon parties that held council there…

— Jack Kerouac

“Truly sad that the most diverse neighborhood in our city is one for the dead and not the living.”

— J.D. Trafford

“While chasing birds, he had hitchhiked through some of the most desolate places imaginable. Nicaraguan jungles, Indian slums, Samoa fruit bat colonies. But when…

— Susan Casey