«[…] Not with a subway, not with skyscrapers is measured the covice of the contemporary world - founded on the principle of acceleration - but with the joyful sprout that works its way through the stones of the city. Our blood, our music, our concept of the state, all this will continue to live in the tender existence with nature, Nature-Psyche. In this realm the spirit is not contaminated by men, each tree will be ephydriad, and every phenomenon will speak about its own metamorphosis.» [Osip Mandelstam, On poetry, 1928]
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If leaving home you realize that you have a whole sea at your disposal where you can breathe, think walking, skiing, playing, fishing, admire the landscape around you then maybe you are in a city not only of houses, offices, malls, roads, cars, trains, trams, antennas, people always in movement but also an accessible, insightful, playful, joyful, vivid open space. [Helsinki, Winter 2007].
