The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore because they haven't been doing it for, you know, the better part of the century.

The cities of the future will be much smaller than they are today.

Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke.

Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.

My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely on them. For me, it's an issue of scale.