Other Cities
Rockford, Illinois, also is nicknamed "The Forest City." A professional baseball team named Forest City was based in Rockford; it existed for one season, in 1871, and played in the National Association. It was one of two teams of the name in the National Association that year, the other being the Forest City club based in Cleveland, Ohio.
In the United States, Portland, Maine, also is nicknamed "The Forest City." In Canada, London, Ontario, is nicknamed "The Forest City."
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Famous quotes containing the word cities:
“The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers’ hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.”
—Edgar Quinet (1803–1875)