Community Quote by Ken Breniman

“In all these sights I achieve solace only in bringing forth trees, picturing them blooming like smoke from the roofs of gutted buildings, dreaming…

— Tod Wodicka

“The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions…

— Sharon Salzberg

“In the country one sees only nature's fair works, and one's soul is not saddened by the cruel struggle for mere existence that goes…

— Helen Keller

“The city is built on an inhuman scale. Everything is by design inconvenient for Homo sapiens.”

— Andrew Meier

“Cities balanced on the edge of sustainability, always one step from starvation. When you pressed so many people together, their cultures, ideas, and stenches…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Kindness, a lost art. Patience, even more elusive. City life in all its undesirable glory.”

— Deborah Garner

“The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It…

— Anne LaBastille

“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

“So why do almost all cities remain viable, whereas the vast majority of companies and organisms die?”

— Geoffrey West

“Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear—the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty…

— Edward Abbey

“It can only benefit the city to have endless waves of exceptionally capable, even brilliant, folk unfettered by class and family connections. They change…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Our inhumane neighbors, instead of sympathizing with us tauntingly proclaim the healthfulness if their won cities…”

— Laurie Halse Anderson