My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely on them. For me, it's an issue of scale.

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.

It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.

Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.

The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.

Save time, worry about everything all at once!

I've discovered I am most comfortable outside my comfort zone.

We treat what’s lost, what could have never been, what we could have never dreamed of, again. We treat it like heirlooms for it is so precious. For we know it can be lost, again.

Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.

When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

Be the one to stand out in the crowd.

Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.

There’s a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.