Urban Green Spaces Quotes

Well we have a tiny garden, it's like a postage stamp, so generally we try to get out to the parks in London as much as possible.

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.

Every time you think of a city, you have to think green, green, green. Every time you see concrete jungle, you must find open spaces. And when you find open spaces, make it so people can get to them.

Building one garden in L.A. - it might be a nice gesture - but it won't make a difference. We have to start to change the culture of the community.

When I thought about Detroit, I would think big city, very urban - not a lot of places to walk around, not a lot of parks. I sort of pictured Manhattan almost, where, besides Central Park, it's all city and big buildings. But now that I'm here, you see people pushing strollers, people hanging out in the park.

Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.

Spring and fall in New York are the best seasons here to get out and about. I like the little park in Dumbo between the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridge. I like Prospect Park.

The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

Increasingly, outdoors recreation occurs close to home, in or near towns and cities where 80 percent of us soon will live.