"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment"

"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime"

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos"

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"

"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life"

"I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women"

"While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings"

"If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment"

"I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric"

"If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism"