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

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

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.