Artificial Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are…

— Robert Ardrey

“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

“it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in a…

— Amor Towles

In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“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

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the…

— Charles Baudelaire

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their…

— Rem Koolhaas

Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This sets the…

— Lewis Mumford

“For it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in…

— Amor Towles

In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm.

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

“When it is good, this is a city of fantastic strength, sophistication and beauty. It is like no other city in time or place.…

— Ada Louise Huxtable