Larry Harvey Quotes

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

Cities are immortal.

Uncivilized races, and the bravest and most energetic still more than the rest, are averse to continuous labor of an unexciting kind. Yet all real civilization is at this price; without such labor, neither can the mind be disciplined into the habits required by civilized society, nor the material world prepared to receive it.

No community ever did or ever can emerge unassisted by external helps from a state of utter barbarism into anything that can be called civilization

I live in the middle of nowhere. I'm a country bumpkin in Ireland, in Donegal, and to go from that to Toronto, huge city, massive buildings just stretching so tall.

Lucknow's architecture is a part of life in the city.

All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no civilized nation, but only nations in the process of becoming civilized. From this standpoint, we can now speak of a collective task of humankind. The task of humanity is to build a genuine civilization.

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

As women go, so goes civilization.