Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
From Lewis Mumford
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
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