The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I do all I can to maintain good health. I eat mostly plants, as Michael Pollan would say. I get a lot… — 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 economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The faltering of our suburban living arrangement is probably certain. The response of suburbanites is not. Will they elect maniacs who promise… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
In my view, suburbia in general has very poor prospects. I think it will only become devalued and probably more dangerous. It's… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Life in the mid-21st century is going to be about living locally. Be prepared to be good neighbors. Be prepared to find… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“There was nothing like it before in history: a machine that promised liberation from the daily bondage of place. And in a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
We might hope that the law as a profession does not vanish, because justice may vanish with it - but we could… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The quality of life of European cities and towns of almost any size make life in America look not just like a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
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