WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 05 May 2026 17:55:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg sentimentalize – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Jacobs, Jane -- The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Part 4, ch. 22 (1961) https://wist.info/jacobs-jane/72267/ https://wist.info/jacobs-jane/72267/#respond Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:26:47 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=72267 There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that we Americans, probably the world’s champion sentimentalizers about nature, are at one and the same time probably the world’s most voracious and disrespectful destroyers of wild and rural countryside.


Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) American-Canadian journalist, author, urban theorist, activist
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Part 4, ch. 22 (1961)
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