What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of …

- Lewis Mumford

A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the pict…

- Lewis Mumford

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal…

- Lewis Mumford

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

- Lewis Mumford

If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you.

- Lewis Mumford

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

- Lewis Mumford

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterilit…

- Lewis Mumford

Trend is not destiny.

- Lewis Mumford

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

- Lewis Mumford