Nathan Glazer famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives.
-- Nathan Glazer -
The Spirit of Cities presents a new approach to the study of cities in which the focus is placed on a city's defining ethos or values. The style of the book is attractively conversational and even autobiographical, and far from current social science positivism. For a lover of cities--and perhaps even for one who is not--The Spirit of Cities is consistently good reading.
-- Nathan Glazer
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It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.
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Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.
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The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.
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Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.
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All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.
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Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.
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Im certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.
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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.
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