City Parks Quotes:

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

- John Muir

source: John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America

topic: Needs, Bread, Imperfect, Beautiful Nature, Soul Beauty

Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.

- Teju Cole

source: Teju Cole (2011). “Open City: A Novel”, p.11, Random House

topic: Light, Air, Psychics, Luxury Hotels, City Parks

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

- Bruce Babbitt

topic: Cities, Space, Majority, City Parks

The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a great City Park!-His Heavenly Fair in His Heaven so fair!

- David Berg

topic: Garden, Cities, Pyramids, City Parks, Great Garden

The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use of the word 'landscape' to mean 'a good place' - as the objective of the design process; a comprehensive approach to open space planning involving city parks, greenways and nature outside towns; a planning theory about the contextualisation of development projects; the principle that development plans should be adapted to their landscape context.

- Tom Turner

topic: Mean, Garden, Cities, Landscape Architecture, City Parks

Air is one we hold in common; it has a limited carrying capacity for pollutants and that's being used up by those who pollute the atmosphere. So we have to stop that externality. We would never allow a utility to put their coal slag in a dump truck and back it up to the city park and dump it in unlimited amounts for free. But that is exactly what we do with carbon dioxide and methane.

- Jay Inslee

topic: Cities, Air, Atmosphere, Methane, City Parks

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

- George A. Sheehan

topic: Sports, New York, Hero, City Parks, Funny Inspirational Sports

This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance halls, and city parks, and about how his own Paps, how he had beat him, how he taught him to dance, as if we could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer from the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still steeping and snapping perfectly in time.

- Justin Torres

topic: Beer, Men, Cities, Snapping, Spanish Harlem

I can respect the gulf that separates alpinism from a running race and still appreciate that the physiology that accounts for endurance is the same if you are running a foot race in the city park or front pointing up the second ice field on the north face of the Eiger.

- Steve House

source: Source: www.omnivoracious.com

topic: Running, Feet, Race, Alpinism, City Parks