Air Quote by William Hazlitt

I think there's something very peculiar about living in the city and not part of the major metropolis; that actually makes it remarkably easy…

— Steven Wilson

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

— Jane Jacobs

“A man matters, his experiences matter, but in a city, where experiences come by the thousands, we can no longer relate them to ourselves,…

— Robert Musil

“In a city, with all of its enclaves and boundaries, both real and imagined, it is impossible not to feel the presence of those…

— Kate Milford

“From my own novel. Because in the City, you know there is nothing else, it is a place without roads, without real people, without…

— Ben Farmer

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than…

— Gore Vidal

Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the…

— Jane Jacobs

I think that there is a middle-class desire, and maybe an almost universal desire, among many human beings to live in clean neighborhoods, among…

— Sharon Zukin

“As the urban world becomes more hazardous, stressful, and complex, there are those who will be attracted to a simpler way of life.”

— John A. Hostetler

“To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. The moving about…

— Michel de Certeau

“People who live in big cities are deprieved, consciously or unconsciously, of those almost indefinable things on which our human sensitivity feeds, like the…

— Margot Fonteyn

Daily absorption in the physical actualities of nature is life as I need it to be: it means I am connected to such large…

— Tilda Swinton