Quotes About Urban Nature

#1. Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

Eileen Myles

#2. This is one of the blessings of the urban nature project: without the overtly magnificent to stop us in our tracks, we must seek out the more subversively magnificent. Our sense of what constitutes wildness is expanded, and our sense of wonder along with it.

Lyanda Lynn Haupt

#3. We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature.

Adolph Green

#4. There's no down time any more.

Jeff Foxworthy

#5. It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.

Richard Louv

#6. It's not my fault I have vampire swagger.

Delilah S. Dawson

#7. For him, the kampung was a place to live and work that was based on a steadfast and intimate relationship between man and nature. The village was a true reflection of life in the tropics.

Isa Kamari

#8. I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas.

Shane Carruth

#9. With the sun sliding out of the sky like spit off a wall ...

Junot Diaz

#10. I have to.
I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.

Kelley Armstrong

#11. We all have a dual nature,some of us are just better able to control the energy we expend on each part of it." Lessons for an Urban Goddess

Laney Zukerman

#12. Now little kids come to my front door and give me cookies. You see that smile on their face, they're looking at me the same way I used to look at Hulk Hogan and Bret Hart, and that's pretty cool.

Edge

#13. You can only fight what you are for so long. Eventually the hand that nature has dealt you will make you become what you were meant to be. You have no control over it.

Lindsay J. Pryor

#14. But you're out of another world old kid ... You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms.

John Dos Passos

#15. To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.

Danny Sugerman

#16. I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the cities feel a little more natural, people like to live there more rather than moving out and dividing up another piece of land that shouldn't be touched.

Stone Gossard

#17. I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'

Vicky Hartzler

#18. As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.

Julia Kent

#19. In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.

Bjork

#20. Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature's gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in an urban environment.

Richard Louv

#21. Even though she assured me two people could be a family, ours didn't seem complete.

Lisa Kleypas

#22. Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship. This harmony is most evident in remote places like this, and I hope it does not loose its unique character in the ruthless urban advance.

Ruskin Bond

#23. Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.

Yves Behar

#24. I was a moral coward, and he was not losing his life and desires through fear - which the majority of us do.

Theodore Dreiser

#25. Plate after plate sparkled under Glenda's hands. Nothing cleans stubborn stains like suppressed anger.

Terry Pratchett

#26. A location can really enhance exercise enjoyment. Getting out in nature - whether it's a beach, lake, river, forest, hills or even an urban park - can do wonders for our mood and stress levels.

Michael Klim

#27. In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of nature, with specific, local characteristics.

Sally A. Kitt Chappell

#28. I knew I was a little different from most demons but nothing says freak of nature like a one-eyed gypsy saying I had a rainbow glow. It just didn't sound complimentary.

Mary Abshire

#29. I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Dennis Ross

#30. The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head.

Michael Graves

#31. The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Lewis Mumford