Buildings Quote by W. S. Merwin

When I first arrived (in New York), it seemed to me the most terrifying city in the world... all those big buildings. I remember…

— Benny Goodman

I used to be frightened of the countryside after dark. Now I enjoy it. There is something wonderful about those strange country and wildlife…

— Jasmine Guinness

I grew up in New York City, so I have, like, an inherent fear of trees, I think, in general.

— Scott Snyder

Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the…

— Wendell Berry

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any…

— Regina Spektor

Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of…

— Marilyn Manson

“Urbanism is the most advanced, concrete fulfillment of a nightmare. Littre defines nightmare as 'a state that ends when one awakens with a start…

— Tom McDonough

As a teenager and into my early twenties I lived in a geodesic dome on a mountain. No running water, no phone, real rustic.…

— Samantha Hunt

The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had…

— Beatrix Potter

The last two - distractions and fears - are the dangerous ones. They're the habitual demons that invade the launch of any project. No…

— Twyla Tharp

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and…

— Joseph Heller

“Many adults, in the indurated immobility of years, acquire a fear of places they have never been, even as they long for something different…

— Steven Erikson