Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.

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.

We can all make the world a better place through the moment-to-moment decisions we make as we interact with people.

The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

I leave my parents here behind And all my friends to love resigned 'Tis grief to go, but death to stay Farewell -- I'm gone with love away.

The British press isn't as vicious as it used to be, and these days it's sort of cool to care again. Everyone loves an everyman anthem.

We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?

In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live.

We are justified in calling numbers a free creation of the human mind.

You don't buy chemistry, nor do you manufacture it, it is what it is.

The word is now a virus.