Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I
have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of
man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In Rome you long for the
country; in the country - oh inconstant! - you praise the distant city to the
stars.
Horace
Cities
are the abyss of the human species.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A
city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
Herbert
Prochnow
The
city disappears street by street as you enter it.
Ian Seed
God
made the country, and man made the town.
William Cowper
Suburb:
a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.
Mignon
McLaughlin
Divine
Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.
Marcus Terentius
Varro
No
city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
Cyril
Connolly
The
axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town
or city.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
All
cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are
beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Christopher Morley
There
are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to
the water brooks.
Philip G. Hamerton
Clearly,
then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
Desmond
Morris
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