#york

Is a newspaper prints a sex crime, it's smut, but when The New York Times prints it, it's a sociological study. [Adolph S. Ochs - Publisher New York Times] ↗

— Adolph S. Ochs

#sociology

Environmental historians have documented new mainstream environmentalism's wilderness and preservationist conceptions of the environment as a pristine green space devoid of people were derived from romantic and transcendentalist ideals and reflected class and racial biases." p28 in Noxious New York ↗

— Silvia Hood Washington

#environmental-racism #noxious-new-york #romantic

The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove. ↗

— Freeman John Dyson

#immanuel-velikovsky #jim-carter #lord-kelvin #margaret-wertheim #physics-on-the-fringe

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. ↗

— John Updike

#new-york-city #humor

There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open? ↗

— Woody Allen

#new-york-city #humor

Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing. ↗

— Willa Cather

#pittsburgh #willa-cather #new-york-city

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#new-york-city

I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#new-york-city

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#new-york-city

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is. ↗

— Henry Ford

#new-york-city