Open Spaces Quotes - Page 2

The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.

Harry Seidler

Government, Space, Needs

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Growing Greener doesnt produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

Ed Rendell

Space, Growing, Produce

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Every time I see open space I see a mat on the floor

Renzo Gracie

Space

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My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces.

Schuyler Fisk

Horse, Growing Up, Space

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Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.

Adam Schiff

Taken, California, Space

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There's nothing that builds up a toil-weary soul
Like a day on a stream,
Back on the banks of the old fishing hole
Where a fellow can dream.
There's nothing so good for a man as to flee
From the city and lie
Full length in the shade of a whispering tree
And gaze at the sky.
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It is good for the world that men hunger to go
To the banks of a stream,
And weary of sham and of pomp and of show
They have somewhere to dream.
For this life would be dreary and sordid and base
Did they not now and then
Seek refreshment and calm in God's wide, open space
And come back to be men.

Edgar Guest

Dream, Lying, Men

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The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.

Carl Guardino

Nature, Smart, Space

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The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sweet, Winter, Thinking

'Adonais' (1821) preface

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Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.

Ellie Goulding

Song, Thinking, Two

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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As children, we had access to all the open space imaginable. We would set up camps in rural Utah where the Tempest Company was at work laying pipe. We spent time around the West in Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Colorado. Wild beautiful places. Now, many of these natural places have disappeared under the press of development.

Terry Tempest Williams

Beautiful, Children, Space

Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

Jim Fowler

Powerful, Two, Numbers

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And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.

Ed Rendell

Beautiful, Space, Tourism

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Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

Rem Koolhaas

Men, Cities, Space

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An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.

Bill Bryson

Iowa, Space, Looks

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There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.

Annie Proulx

Believe, Space, Brokeback Mountain

Annie Proulx (1999). “Close Range: Wyoming Stories”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us.

Moshe Safdie

Cities, Space, People

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Where you need to make fast decisions, people have to work in an open space where I can just walk to somebody's cube, so we don't need to schedule meetings for absolutely everything.

Marcelo Claure

Space, People, Decision

"The Plan to Fix Sprint". Interview with Ryan Knutson, www.wsj.com. October 25, 2015.

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Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.

Buddy Wakefield

Wall, Space, Inviting

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The cats at the edge of the clearing were staring up at the sky, their eyes huge with fear. As he looked upward, Fireheart heard the beating of wings and saw a hawk circling above the trees, its harsh cry drifting on the air. At the same time he realized that one cat had not taken shelter; Snowkit was tumbling and playing in the middle of the open space. "Snowkit!" Speckletail yowled desperately.

Erin Hunter

Taken, Cat, Eye

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There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.

Norbert Bisky

White, Space, Painting

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I'm a London lad, but I'm fascinated by America. I want to take a motorcycling trip across the country and see those wide open spaces.

Charlie Cox

Country, America, Space

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.

Karel Appel

Ocean, Book, Space

"Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, p. 93, 'Quotes', 1990.

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While the foods were being prepared, I watched as men dragged a foot-operated grinding wheel into an open space, and the groom devoted a tense hour to putting a razor's edge to a large, ornate dagger. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl.

Gregory David Roberts

Girl, Father, Eye

Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.620, Macmillan

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King-sized? It would take up all my space. I need wide-open spaces." She glanced at Kane for help, but he was rolling around on a matress and moaning in a loud, orgasmic manner. She rolled her eyes and heaved a sigh.

Christine Feehan

Kings, Eye, Space

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As our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often forever. Unless we preserve these spaces while they are still available, we will have none to preserve.

Richard M. Nixon

Cities, Space, People

Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.13, Best Books on

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