WIST Quotations

Jacobs, Jane -- The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Part 1, ch. 4 (1961)

Dave — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 23:12:15 +0000

The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other. This is a lesson no one learns by being told. It is learned from the experience of having other people without ties of kinship or close friendship or formal responsibility to you take a modicum of responsibility for you.

Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) American-Canadian journalist, author, urban theorist, activist
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Part 1, ch. 4 (1961)
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Thoreau, Henry David -- A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Wednesday” (1849)

Dave — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:14:30 +0000

It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Wednesday” (1849)
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Berry, Wendell -- The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture, ch. 1 (1977)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only hope.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture, ch. 1 (1977)
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