"If you want to seed a place with…" — William H. Whyte
"If you want to seed a place with activity, put out food."
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11 Quotes by William H. Whyte
William H. Whyte has 11 quotes on this site.
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People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do…
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The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home…
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What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people.
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It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has…
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The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.
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The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the…
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So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.
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Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the…
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People tend to sit where there are places to sit
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We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was…
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More Activity Quotes
This quote is filed under Activity Quotes,
one of 1,646 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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