Sir Patrick Geddes

Shirley · Post: # 27949Post **Shirley** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:40 pm

I just love this quote... I've nicked a little bit for my signature... the whole thing is too long to repeat over and over... but just thought I'd share with you here. A true Scottish genius... born in Ballater, Aberdeenshire. The Father of Town Planning... he is famous for his Place, Work, Folk triad.

Ã¢â‚¬Å“This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.Ã¢â‚¬Â

Boots · Post: # 27962Post **Boots** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:27 pm

Yes. I think we should ask the politicians to leave. They can have Mars.

The Chili Monster · Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:33 pm

Boots wrote:

Yes. I think we should ask the politicians to leave. They can have Mars

And that's far enough away?

Boots · Post: # 27965Post **Boots** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:53 pm

Well, it's hot enough for them to all disintegrate upon arrival...

Chickpea · Post: # 27967Post **Chickpea** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:56 pm

Good quote. Sounds like quite a guy. "We live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests" is another good soundbite from it.

The Chili Monster · Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:39 pm

Well, it's hot enough for them to all disintegrate upon arrival...

How very true, Boots.