"This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe."

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Source : Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

Jane Jacobs

#Cities Quotes #Safe Quotes #City Streets Quotes

“We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.”

Source : Gary Paul Nabhan (1994). “The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places”, Beacon Press (MA)
“I feel that as long as you keep running towards your dreams and wish, they'll come true one day. Hard work will not betray ourselves”
“A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against”
“The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.”
“Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower - and what is my experience if it is not the color?”
“For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.”
“In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.”
“How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.”

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