Added Famous Walls, Wall Songs to Wall Symposium Web site

We've added two new sections to the Wall Symposium Web site (You can find them under the Food For Thought menu):

Famous Walls is an illustrated list of 18 famous walls, From the Great Wall of China to the Wall of Separation between church and state. Did we miss some? Let us know!

Wall Songs is a handful of song lyrics about Wall and fences. Have a favorite that isn't listed? Let us know!

Quotations section added to Web site

We've added a quotations section to the Wall Symposium Web site. Here are some samples:

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian."
Paul McCartney

"The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said 'This is mine,' and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society."
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Poems About Walls

The Walls Symposium defines "wall" in the broadest possible sense. Not only physical walls but also metaphysical and metaphorical walls. Borders, fences, hedges, edges, limits, divisions. Where there are walls there are also gates, doors and windows. Walls can be built, torn down, climbed, breached. People can be inside the wall, outside the wall, on the wall, against the wall, driven up the wall. Walls can divide; walls can protect.

To help us think more deeply about walls, we have collected 47 poems about walls. You can download them in pdf format: cool, huh?

Hang a poster on your wall

You can download and print a color poster to hang on you wall to help advertise the Walls Symposium.

Download the poster (8.5x11" pdf file, 2.3MB)