Cities Quote by Tod Wodicka

“Imagine cities that resemble forests, technologies that heal rather than harm, and societies rooted in balance and cooperation.”

— Ken Breniman

“And it's finally only in the woods you get that nostalgia for "cities" at last, you dream of long gray journeys to cities where…

— Jack Kerouac

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

— Deborah Garner

“This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“I studied the dusty street, the plastic walls and dries patches of piss. And I guess it was being left with just shantytowns and…

— Chris Howard

“Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley…

— Eldridge Cleaver

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how…

— Octavia E. Butler

“Perhaps we should be happier in our cities were we to respond to them as to nature or dreams: as objects of exploration, investigation…

— Elizabeth Wilson

“Leaf, branch, vine, bramble. The rush of air in my ears. The rapid-fire scuffscuffscuff of my shoes on the trail. Shards of blue sky…

— RIch Yancy

“But all my life—so far— I have loved best how the flowers rise and open, how the pink lungs of their bodies enter the…

— Mary Oliver

“A tree that is planted by the riverside blossoms all through because its environment has taking it beyond the realm of seasons.”

— Ikechukwu Izuakor

“This is my city; I was here, when this was all forest, long before people like you put the pavement down.”

— Lakambini A. Sitoy