As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.

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.

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

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

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.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.