Walled Quotes
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...located at an elevation of about 390m. ...the walled wall city is in the northeast of Jaipur, while the new parts spread to south and west. Heir to a rich intellectual heritage, Jaipurians, Hindu and Muslim men alike have bright Rajput turbans and swashbuckling mustaches while the women wear colourful saris.
— Lonely Planet, in The Cities Book: A Journey Through the Best Cities in the World (2006, pg. 190)
The extraordinary patience of things! This beautiful place defaced with a crop of suburban houses How beautiful when we first beheld it, Unbroken field of poppy and lupin walled with clean cliffs; No intrusion but two or three horses pasturing...
robinson jeffers— "Carmel Point"
This death’s livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.
thomas edward ("t. e.") lawrence— The Revolt in the Desert (1927) Ch. 35
I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch memories ripening in the sunlight of a walled garden. But there is the void over my head and the distance within that the tireless signals come from. And astronaut on impossible journeys to the far side of the self I return with messages I cannot decipher.
r. s. thomas— "The New Mariner", p. 99
The city's history unfolds back its birth from a 10th century AD ancient site known as Ashaval to the present walled city re-founded during the period of Ahmad Shah and onwards.
— Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, in NGO, CRUTA Foundation Heritage walk of Ahmedabad - A City Revisited, Bilkulonline
...it is one of the most famous cities of India... highly popular among both domestic and foreign tourists who are attracted to its living craft traditions, its palaces and regularly planned walled city at its core.
— In p.9 (Building Jaipur: The Making of an Indian City)
Apple TV offers a gracious, delightful experience but requires fidelity to Apple’s walled garden.
david pogue— New York Times
The walled city, with its twelve gates and numerous mosques, temples and towers, was founded in 1411 by Ahmad Shah on the eastern bank of the Sabarmati River. Despite its dilapidated condition, the Indian Islamic architecture and the houses decorated with wood carvings attest to its affluent status.
— Anjana Desai, in Environmental Perceptions, in Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat, p.33
