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"No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems."
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"Clear skies do not promise rain."

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."
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"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."

"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."

"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."

"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."

"The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers."

"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."

"There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century."

"The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land."
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