Quote by Robert Moor

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

— Andrew Meier

“Just as ants do when their nest is disturbed, we return, survey the damage, and then without hesitation immediately get to work rebuilding.”

— Camron Wright

“What was it about this city, with its endless possibilities, that elicited such limited routines?”

— Hugh Howey

“Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had.”

— Bill Bryson

“Was this what the city would look like when knowledge was no longer enough? When the desire to turn inward, surrendering entirely to one's…

— Olivia Sudjic

“Still we live meanly like ants.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Ant swarming City City full of dreams Where in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve ”

— Charles Baudelaire

“He would move from city to city as he had always done, using people, soiling them like sheets and walking away, to find fresh…

— Robert Goolrick

“The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms or models.…

— Cristina Martin

“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made…

— Sheridan Hay

“We want to make choices, and have some agency in getting lost, and getting found. We want to challenge the city, and decipher it,…

— Lauren Elkin

“You can see the old cities still everywhere. The bones and bricks go to dust, but the little pieces of plastic never do -…

— Ursula K. Le Guin