Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The thing you gotta understand about L.A. is that everything is suburbia. Los Angeles isn't set up like San Francisco or New… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
“Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.” — S. Kelley Harrell 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
When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck,… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the… — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
“Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
'Jesus of Suburbia' is such a dynamic song from start to finish; it's nine minutes of craziness and hectic-ness and emotion... It's… — Aquaria Copy Share Image
“Hurrying on, Barbee nodded to the workman as casually as he could. His skin felt goose-pimpled under the thin red robe, and… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
I think that the invasion of suburbia, our homes and our families, by this indefatigable, unstoppable force like zombies is frightening and… — Marc Price Copy Share Image
One thing that I'm predicting is that there will be a vigorous and futile defense of suburbia and all its entitlements, no… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Government at all levels in the USA right now is engaged in a quixotic campaign to sustain the unsustainable. We're determined to… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Do you remember the suburbs and the plaintive flock of landscapes The cypress trees projected their shadows under the moon That night… — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
I have always found the suburbs very beautiful – the light, the change of seasons and so on. I am not so… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
“The curious culture of the modern suburb will believe anything it is told in the papers about the wickedness of the Pope,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“How young I seem; I am exceptional; I think of all I have. But really no one is exceptional, No one has… — Randall Jarell Copy Share Image
One of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
When they dumped all these people out of the insane asylums they didn't all go sleep in the street. Some of them… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in all the bright assurances he was lost in a private darkness, led on by a recurrent dream of more than… — William McIlvanney Copy Share Image
“Over the course of my life I've been to lots of places. Shadowed places where things have gone wrong. Sinister places where… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that… — Roger Swain Copy Share Image
“Besides shopping at garage sales, I love hosting garage sales. Every year my mom and I dig through our houses and find… — Jen Mann Copy Share Image
“You were thinking about how suburbs are perfect cradles for dreaming: they practically beg you to imagine another life, one lived at… — Colin Walsh Copy Share Image
I grew up in suburbia, so it's a world I'm familiar with... but in my experience, all the families that I grew… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
[Suburbia] represents, after all, the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. We built it during our most affluent… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this,… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
“With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion,… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Consider how badly-built suburbia is. Many business buildings are not designed to outlast their tax depreciation periods, and the McHouses are made… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“He hated the blue platter his mother served from, and the salt and pepper shakers, which were glass with red tops, and… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
The fortunate and successful New Urbanists will be the ones who can find local infill projects in small towns and small cities… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“The trick is to learn to believe that it's a disconnected world, a lunatic world, where what is true now was not… — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
![“[Suburbia] represents, after all, the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. We built it during our most affluent period of history, and in the decades to come we will be comparatively destitute collectively. In short, we will not have the resources to retrofit most of…” quote by James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/319/james-howard-kunstler-2886_affluent_suburbia-represents-after-all-the-greate_1095294.jpg)
