Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.

Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people.

People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.

People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.