Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

I don't build a house without predicting the end of the present social order.

How many understand that Nature is the essential character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in, always in. It's always inside the thing, and it makes the outside. And some day, when you get sufficiently proficient in understanding the use of the term, you can tell by the outside pretty much from what's inside.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.