Famous quotes containing the words garden, city and/or park:
“The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable rôle with the promise of rewardsmaterial and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the Garden of Eden.”
—Wyndham Lewis (18821957)
“London ... remains a mans city where New York is chiefly a womans. London has whole streets that cater to mens wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.”
—Louis Kronenberger (19041980)
“Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his comb and spare shirt, leathern breeches and gauze cap to keep off gnats, with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)