Cities Quote by Marcus Terentius Varro

In traditional cities like Beijing, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, nature was a very important part of urban planning - not only as a landscape but…

— Ma Yansong

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

— Marcus Terentius Varro

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They…

— Leon Krier

“It is time to expand what has been a romantic attachment to the ornaments of nature into a commitment to reshape the city in…

— Anne Whiston Spirn

“So the city emerges as man’s ultimate attempt to become manmade, born from himself rather than from Mother Nature. The feeling of self-sufficiency he…

— Monica Sjöö

“I had come to Boyne City because I have always been drawn to nature's secrets more than to, say Hollywood's secrets or the secrets…

— Langdon Cook

“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

“In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of nature, with…

— Sally A. Kitt Chappell

I'm trying to express nature in big cities.

— Ma Yansong

“It wasn’t a city, it was a process, a weight on the world that distorted the land for hundreds of miles around. People who’d…

— Terry Pratchett

Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon;…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become more aware…

— Ma Yansong