Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

If you want to seed a place with activity, the first thing to do is to put out food.

It’s not right to put water before people and then keep them away from it.

People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.

What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people.

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.