Patrick Geddes Quote

Each of the various specialists remains too closely concentrated upon his single specialism, too little awake to those of the others. Each sees clearly and seizes firmly upon one petal of the six-lobed flower of life and tears it apart from the whole.


Patrick Geddes (1947). "Town Planning in Kapurthala. A Report to H.H. the Maharaja of Kapurthala, 1917". In: Jacqueline Tyrwhitt. Patrick Geddes in India. London: Lund Humphries. p. 26.


Each of the various specialists remains too closely concentrated upon his single specialism, too little awake to those of the others. Each sees...

Each of the various specialists remains too closely concentrated upon his single specialism, too little awake to those of the others. Each sees...

Each of the various specialists remains too closely concentrated upon his single specialism, too little awake to those of the others. Each sees...

Each of the various specialists remains too closely concentrated upon his single specialism, too little awake to those of the others. Each sees...