Quotes
""The older I grow and the longer I look at landscapes and seek to understand them, the more convinced I am that their beauty is not simply an aspect but their very essence and that that beauty derives from the human presence."
"Let us hope that the merits and charm of the highway strip are not so obscure but they will be accepted by a wider public."
"The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment."
"The way a city grows, the direction in which it spreads, is a factor not so much of zoning or real estate activity or land values but of highways."
"Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform."
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