Sentimentality About Nature Denatures Everything It Touches.

Everybody's Got A Worldview, Whether They Know They Have It Or They Don't. They Might Even Get It When They Are Little Tiny Kids. Suppose They Get It When They Are In College, Which Is Often The Case, Or In High School, Whatever. Everything They Learn After That Or Every Thing They See After That, They Fit It Into That Worldview. And They Are Making Coherence Of What's Good, What's Bad, What Will Work, What Won't Work, What's Noble, What's Ignoble, And So On... All Through This Filter.

Nothing Is So Clear In History That Is It Happens For Any One Thing. It Seems That A Lot Of Things Come Together To Make Great Changes.

Automobiles Are Often Conveniently Tagged As The Villains Responsible For The Ills Of Cities And The Disappointments And Futilities Of City Planning. But The Destructive Effect Of Automobiles Are Much Less A Cause Than A Symptom Of Our Incompetence At City Building.

I Still Have A Lot Of Family In America. I Still Have A Lot Of Friends There. There Is A Lot That I Admire There Very Much. When I Find America Getting Too Much Criticized Outside America, I Want To Tell Them How Many Things Are Good About It.

One Of Our Troubles Is That We Try To Make Municipalities That Are Totally Different From Each Other All Act As If They Were The Same Kind Of Creature, With The Same Kinds Of Possibilities.