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“Skyscrapers! Unhealthy ugly giants! To live and work as close as to the land is a blessing! Remember, you are not a cloud! Come… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“I stop in my tracks to look up, completely disrupting the flow of tourist traffic. It’s directly in front of me, in all its… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“A skyscraper is the incarnate rebellion against the supposedly unattainable; against the mystery of altitude, against the otherworldliness of the cerulean.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
I just want to build the best buildings. It's not about me, it's about the buildings, creating a space where society can gather and… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
“The contest of world's tallest skyscraper is a childish thing. Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Many of the projects I'm most proud of are tall buildings, especially the housing projects. In New York I have two: one in Kips… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
I must brave the interior of the most tawdry and literally trumpery tower of them all ... the Trump Taj Mahal. For taking the… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“As I grew up, I knew that as a building (Fenway Park) was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the… — Bart Giamatti Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As someone who grew up in a logging and rail town and hiking in Glacier National Park, I am honored and humbled to be… — Ryan Zinke Copy Share Image
Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies. — Fred W. Friendly Copy Share Image
On the lip of the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to do that. My very first TV special out of the Olympics was on… — Brian Boitano Copy Share Image
I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
“Number of SWAT teams in the FBI alone in 2013: 56 Unlikely federal agencies that have used SWAT teams: US Fish and Wildlife… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
“YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — In an otherworldly grove of cinnamon-colored” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose. — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
Under the snowcapped mountains of Fiordland National Park, freshwater streams empty into the saltwater fiords, creating a unique ecosystem. This is a heavily wooded… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
