Urban Green Space Quotes

As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that we can get out there, you know, and play flag football or Frisbee, or walk the dog or something - you know, which is, you know, what the National Mall should be for, in my personal opinion.

The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.

That public parks should exist at all was a radical idea.

I actually walk through Washington Square Park a lot.

There must be a way to combine the high rise and high-density environment with nature. Maybe we can have our gardens in the sky.

Parks are as essential to the physical and emotional health of a city as the water supply.

When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.

One of the great things about New York is this wonderful park we have.

If you have a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of having some more greenery.

If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.

I love the Park. I like to walk on the East River, too, up at Gracie Square, but Central Park is my favorite part of the city.

When I heard of the 'garden bridge' idea, it seemed so clear and powerful, the notion of using nature to scale down an enormous piece of potentially wind-swept exposed link. That's what struck me - not treating the bridge just as a link, but as a place.