There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City.
It seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that there are an awful lot of people in Manhattan. And it's getting worse.
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.
When you hear that China is overcrowded, that's an understatement. I was shocked at the number of people. Even in the rural areas. I was also shocked at the poverty and at the living conditions.
We are already overcrowded. There's no more room, and we must shut the borders.
The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.
Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.
Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life's hurried tangled road
All it takes is a single person coming into or going out of the jail or prison with COVID-19, and the entire jail will likely be infected. Most jails have people living in very close quarters.
Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that much stress, it translates into wars and huge displaced populations. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a first taste of what it's going to be like. I don't want my kids growing up in that kind of world.
A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.
Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.
We are going to strangle ourselves in our own growth.
I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
It's not annoying if only a couple of people come up. If a bunch of them crowd around me, it's annoying.
Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.
There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.
No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.
As the pressure of population increasingly regiments us and crowds us closer together, an association with the wild, winged freedom of the birds will fill an ever growing need in our lives.
Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.
I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.
