James Howard Kunstler Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Powerful, Thinking, Cynical

• 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, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work. A land full of places that are not worth caring about will soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Believe, Caring, Land

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

• I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior than the delighted exercise of my rather malicious sense of humor - especially vis-a-vis the horrifying everyday environment we have produced for ourselves. These mall-scapes, burb-scapes, urban wildernesses, starchitect stunts, and other toxic contexts for our daily lives express about every human vice, stupidity, and blunder that it is possible for a society to make. It all leads, really, to a psychological place where only comedy or despair make sense.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Exercise, Stupidity, Everyday

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

• The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Motivation, Inspiration, America

  "The Greatest Misallocation of Resources in the History of the World". "Placemakers" with Rebecca Sheir, www.slate.com. November 7, 2016.

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