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“San Francisco, by contrast, is all about the collision between man and the universe. It is on auto-derive. Anarchic, blown-out, naked, it shuffles its own crazy deck. To walk the streets is to be constantly hurled into different worlds without event trying. As William Saroyan wrote, "The city has the temperament of a genius. It's unpredictable. Any street is liable to leap upwards at any time . . . It is a city with no rules. Like nature itself it improvises as it goes along.”
― Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
― Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
“Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.”
― Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
― Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
“How is it that people look at the same city and see such very different places? The answer lies in history, or, more accurately, in how people have chosen to remember the past. The habit of regarding culture and nature as binary categories has shaped how we view cities and their dynamic environments. The result is a kind of intellectual myopia in which 'history is experienced as nostalgia and nature as regret--as a horizon fast disappearing behind us.”
― Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle
― Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle
“But one of the things about Seattle is that no matter where you live, there are always views of the mountains and the water.”
― The Piper’s Sons
― The Piper’s Sons
“I loved the sense of being so close to the city, yet so far out on this magnificently eventful sea, with its wild creatures and mazy channels. I thought, if I lived in Seattle, I’d keep a boat of my own, and sail it to where the tide ran at sixteen knots at springs, and where there were whirlpools ten feet deep. I’d live on a sane frontier between nature and civilization, with one foot in the water, the other in a metropolis of restaurants and bookstores. I’d read and write in the mornings, and run away to sea in the afternoons.”
― Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings
― Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings
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