James Howard KunstlerIf it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and won… ▶374HumanityReadingTime
James Howard KunstlerAmericans 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. ✨… ▶365Reflection
James Howard KunstlerThe twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.332Hope
James Howard KunstlerAmerica does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.366Thought
James Howard KunstlerThe American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns inward, away from whatever correspon… ▶336LifeTime
James Howard KunstlerThe two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things ✨ James Howard Kunstler (1… ▶282Hope
James Howard KunstlerRidicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous. ✨ James Howard Kunstler (2003). The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, p.11, Simon and Schuster307Thought
James Howard KunstlerI like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of th… ▶257Thought
James Howard KunstlerNo amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it.191Hope
James Howard KunstlerI'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it.161Time
James Howard KunstlerA land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.2310Life
James Howard KunstlerThe public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical manifestation of the common good. When you degra… ▶141HumanityLife
James Howard KunstlerAnything goes and nothing matters. ✨ Interview with Addison Del Mastro, www.theamericanconservative.com. November 21, 2017.176Life
James Howard KunstlerThe immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible. ✨ The Greatest Misallocation of Resources in the History of the World. Placemakers wi… ▶198Hope
James Howard KunstlerCommunity is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It … ▶132Life
James Howard KunstlerSuburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.148Truth
