#cities

After a seven days' march through woodland, the traveler directed toward Baucis cannot see the city and yet he has arrived. The slender stilts that rise from the ground at a great distance from one another and are lost above the clouds support the city. You climb them with ladders. On the ground the inhabitants rarely show themselves: having already everything they need up there, they prefer not to come down. Nothing of the city touches the earth except those long flamingo legs on which it rests and, when the days are sunny, a pierced, angular shadow that falls on the foilage. "There are three hypotheses about the inhabitants of Baucis: that they hate the earth; that they respect it so much they avoid all contact; that they love it as it was before they existed and with spyglasses and telescopes aimed downward they never tire of examining it, leaf by leaf, stone by stone, ant by ant, contemplating with fascination their own absence. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#invisible #love

Being a shrinking city and a quintessential modern site in flux, Detroit is a testing ground for experimentation and rethinking. ↗

— Luis A. Croquer

#cities #detroit #experimentation #flux #rethinking

Towns and cities throughout the United States have opened their hearts and homes to thousands of families displaced from their homes as a result of this horrific storm. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#displaced #families #hearts #homes #horrific

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now. ↗

— Sean Connery

#cosmopolitan #kind #madness #now

I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US. ↗

— Ville Valo

#before #big #big cities #cities #europe

Nature made the fields and man the cities. ↗

— Marcus Terentius Varro

#fields #made #man #nature

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#created #even #home #i #land

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#disagreements #eccentricities #families #family #impetuous

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide. ↗

— Bob Filner

#activity #cities #estimated #gang #had

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#culture #know #made