"The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy."
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Space
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"Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us."
"Pop life Everybody needs a thrill Pop life We all got a space 2 fill Pop life Everybody can't be on top But life it ain't real funky Unless it's got that pop Dig it."
"Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now."
"Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time."
"In racing there are always things you can learn, every single day. There is always space for improvement, and I think that applies to everything in life."
"You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever."
"Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality."
"Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space."
"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization." "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."
"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."
"We lost the skyline We stepped right off the map Drifted into black space And let the clocks relapse."
"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."
"No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated."
"A king of infinite space"
"Space is the breath of art."
"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."
"This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire."
"She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal."
"Your soul - that inner quiet space - is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction."
"Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation."