Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

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.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

The privileged, we’ll see time and again, are processed more by people, the masses by machines.

Using someone else’s ruler to measure your self-worth will always leave you short.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see…I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

The greatest thing that we can do for the world is be America.

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

The goal of all dressage riding should be to bring the horse and rider together in harmony...a oneness of balance, purpose, and athletic expression.