The Lost City of Sand

Famous quotes containing the words lost, city and/or sand:

    How coyote got his
    ratty old fur coat
    bits of old fur
    the sparrows stuck on him
    with dabs of pitch.
    That was after he lost his proud original one in a poker game.
    Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948)

    The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
    Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

    The desert encroaches on the garden. No matter. Sand will do as well as flowers.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)