Believe Quote by James Howard Kunstler

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information.

— James Howard Kunstler