Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
If the Internet exists at all in the future, it will be on a much-reduced scale from what we enjoy today, and… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
“On my way out of [Atlantic City] at quarter after seven in the morning, a young pump jockey at the gas station [...] mentioned… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
Ahead now, I think you'll see the big nations shrink back into their own corners of the world. I'm not saying we'll see no… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure is the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
There's a lot of wishful thinking that somehow we'll replace fossil fuels with alternative energy sources, but they remain far from reality. We're not… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
