"Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation."

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Source : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.48, Faber & Faber

Basil Bunting

#Home Quotes #Cities Quotes #Names Quotes

“I would love to meet Martin Luther King. His fearless attitude, leadership, and self-awareness changed our world.”
“The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases.”

Source : Nicholas Stern (2009). “The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity”, p.33, PublicAffairs
“I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?”
“Your crew is featherweight, my gunshots will make you levitate”
“In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1984). “The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style”, Pantheon
“He suffered from a rush of words to the head.”
“The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.”
“Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.”

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