We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.