The Geography of Nowhere Quotes by James Howard Kunstler
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
No one sees trees. We see fruit, we see nuts, we see wood, we see shade. We see ornaments or pretty fall foliage. Obstacles blocking the road or wrecking the ski slope. Dark, threatening places that must be cleared. We see branches about to crush our roof. We see a cash crop. But trees—trees are invisible.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Wright believed that “space is the breath of art.” If so, suburbs are holding their breath — suspended between the exhale of urban density and the inhalation of nature. Suburban planning itself exists in this liminal space, what urban theorists recognize as a deliberate in-between: not the mixed-use vitality of urban communities, nor the productive... See more