Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.
America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.
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.
We don't need gold plated highways. We don't need zoning commissions which penalize offices at home and promote car commutes.
Forget [Le Corbusier ]. Forget Modernism. Forget yesterdays' tomorrow.
If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered intelligently at everything about it and the other things who lived here with us on it, and that we celebrated the beauty of it in music and art, architecture, literature, and dance, and that there were times when we approached something godlike in our abilities and aspirations. We emerged out of depthless mystery, and back into mystery we returned,and in the end the mystery is all there is.
The pedal is the soul of the piano.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer; and it is in this way, we have the greatest reason to suppose, that the glorious out-pouring of the Spirit, which we expect at last, will be bestowed.
You may be less likely to pick on someone if you dont know whats in their briefcase or purse.