Organic planning does not begin with a preconceived goal; it moves from need to need, from opportunity to opportunity, in a series of adaptations that themselves become increasingly coherent and purposeful, so that they generate a complex final design, hardly less unified than a pre-formed geometric pattern.

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.

Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.