(34 quotes found)
“As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.”
Stephen Graham
“The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us. . .”
Susan Sontag
“This not only drives up prices, it forces the demand to spill over and sprawl out to the next best piece of geography up and down the coast and the river,”
Bernard Salt
“Billions of dollars have been spent to subsidize sprawl. It's not about no-growth. It's about control.”
Christine Todd Whitman
“Rather than address the serious issues of unaffordable health care, poverty wages, crime, and sprawl, Wal-Mart?s latest and greatest public relations stunt is to try to rebuild a fraction of the very communities and small business it has helped destroy.”
Chris Kofinis
“Sprawl, in general, is a problem. The major solution here is better land-use planning.”
Dan Barwick
“We have population sprawl instead of population growth. People are moving from the city to the rural areas in the Hudson Valley. We need to give young people opportunities with the land. Show them that farming is viable and they'll take it up. They're plenty out there who want to farm but we must show them it's a business that can support them and their family.”
David Haight
“We don't want this to be used for sprawl.”
Jeff Tittel
“we were fleeing the extreme sprawl that had become the suburbs of Detroit.”
Will Danforth
“Just bad bounces. Players were sprawled on the ground and the ball was bouncing around on both plays and it just happened to find its way into the net.”
Dave Kish
