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Famous Urban Planning Quotes

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees. --Theodore Roosevelt
No shade tree? Blame not the sun but yourself. --Chinese Proverb
And the earth brought forth vegetation... and God saw that it was good. --Genesis 1:12
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a tree, one need only own a shovel.
--Aldo Leopold
He that plants trees loves others beside himself. -- Thomas Fuller
Trees cut pollution, they cool the air, they prevent erosion, they muffle sound, and they produce oxygen.
Then, after all that, they look good. --Dr. Richard Leakey
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees. --Bill Vaughn
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone else planted a tree a long time ago. – Warren Buffett
The smallest patch of green to arrest the monotony of asphalt and concrete is as important to the value of real estate as streets and sewers. --James Felt, NYC Planning Commission, 1960
The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb

From 1960 to 2050, America has planned 90-years of time... in 20-year increments.
Such short-sited "Long Range Plans" are responsible for many problems. -- Urban Innovators
Columbus sailed beyond the horizon. If we plan beyond a “horizon year,” perhaps we’ll discover a new, more sustainable world. -- Urban Innovators
In your work, imagine how people 10, 30, 100, and even 1000 years from now will deal with what you do.
Don’t leave them with unsustainable or inflexible systems. -- Urban Innovators
Buildings in Rome have risen and fallen many times, but its streets have hardly changed.
Choose your streets wisely! -- Urban Innovators
Plan the projects of the next 20-years to be flexible and livable for 100 years! -- Urban Innovators
Insanity? Building 70-year bridges, 10-years after studied, to serve 10-more years of a 20-year
traffic forecast. -- Urban Innovators
One of the biggest problems in American suburbs is that short, local streets are too wide, and longer arterials are too few and too narrow for anything but cars. -- Urban Innovators