Fully "biodegradable" structures are nowadays the ideal and the standards to which most, if not all structures, struggle to measure up.

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.

The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum.