"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"

"The family is the nucleus of civilization"

"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"

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

"Man is a child of his environment"

"We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment"

"The environment should act as an aquarium which reflects the ideas, ethics, attitudes, and culture of the people who live in it"