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  • A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album. -- J. D. Souther
  • My ultimate dream is for the Irvine Ranch to be known and celebrated as much for the outstanding communities we've planned and built as it is for what is not developed. The beneficiary being the 50,000 acres of undeveloped land that is now permanently preserved and conserved as Open Space and parklands. -- Donald Bren
  • Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation. -- Ed Rendell
  • The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry. -- Jim Fowler
  • San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city. -- Gavin Newsom
  • The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. -- Robert Dold
  • A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space. -- Clarence Stein
  • The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it. -- Jim Fowler
  • The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens. -- Harry Seidler
  • For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space. -- Vitruvius
  • Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty. -- Adam Schiff
  • Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space. -- Susan Orlean
  • I grew up in Lake Orion, Mich. What was best about Lake Orion where, where we grew up was it was a suburb of Detroit but had a lot of open space around. -- Andrew J. Feustel
  • I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties. -- Mary Quant
  • My two primary areas of focus have been open-space conservation and education, and I expect those to remain my priorities in the future. The Irvine open space and parklands provide serenity and balance to our unique Orange County lifestyle. -- Donald Bren
  • I lived in Dallas, and it's a big city, but you can jump on any freeway and drive in any direction for about 30 minutes and you are in the country - open space, wide open, very open, nothin' around. -- Stark Sands
  • There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders. -- Xavi
  • An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space. -- Bill Bryson
  • Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves. -- Antony Gormley
  • The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important. -- Noam Chomsky
  • When I first joined the Irvine Company, I realized that less than 11,000 acres were designated as open space in the original master plan, and that just didn't seem adequate to me. So, I began the lengthy process working with public and community organizations to add more open space. -- Donald Bren
  • Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot. -- Ellie Goulding
  • I live in Beverly Hills and I'm proud of it. The only things I miss are pie and mash shops and football games. I've lived in America longer than I lived in England. When I first got here, it just felt right to me. I like the open space, and the weather's great. -- Steve Jones
  • Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field. -- Zach Johnson
  • I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space. -- Tom Ford
  • It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers. -- Buzz Aldrin
  • Growing Greener doesnt produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation. -- Ed Rendell
  • I believe that behind every closed door there is an open space. -- Ping Fu
  • If you create any open space within yourself, love will fill it. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Every time I see open space I see a mat on the floor -- Renzo Gracie
  • Every time we open our hearts, we create the space for a global alternative. -- Marianne Williamson
  • Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow. -- Helen Oyeyemi
  • Who is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door? -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Standing is symbolic of life itself,Open space is just a distance between you and someone else -- Mira Midha
  • Honoring a life is honoring the wide open space of wilderness and unknowing where the sacred dwells. -- Shannon Huffman Polson
  • God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • It is in our DNA to create space, to open up safe places, and to change the atmosphere where we live. -- Graham Cooke
  • I'm still working out my opinions - it's always a question mark. I leave loads of space open, and people don't like that. -- M.I.A.
  • In blue Light nature space the whole world, wide grazing land, the open spaces wind across the land and the sky, blue, high -- Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa
  • Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only place to be. -- Sherilyn Fenn
  • I have watched SS2 evolve over the years into an incredible vehicle that is going to open up space to more people than ever before. -- David Mackay
  • What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom. -- Naomi Klein
  • Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself. -- Holly Near
  • There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it. -- Norbert Bisky
  • Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought -- Karl Jaspers
  • The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens. -- Harry Seidler
  • There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it. -- Annie Proulx
  • Where you need to make fast decisions, people have to work in an open space where I can just walk to somebody's cube, so we don't need to schedule meetings for absolutely everything. -- Marcelo Claure
  • Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting ourselves in the open space of God. -- Madeleine Delbrel
  • Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills. -- Criss Jami
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