"Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood……" — William H. Whyte
"Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street."
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William H. Whyte
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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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If you want to seed a place with activity, put out food.
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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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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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