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  • I think we can save a lot of money if we do smart growth, where we build the homes and all of this closer into towns.

    Smart   Home   Thinking  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and land use decisions, we don't view investments as tax and spend, but rather as invest and prosper.

  • The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.

    Nature   Spring   Wind  
    Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”
  • The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.

  • In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!

    Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.27, Harvard University Press
  • 'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.

  • You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest day he believes in spring.

    Nature   Spring   Believe  
  • Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.

    Nature   Smart   Order  
  • The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.

    "The Death Of The Heart".
  • The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.

    Nature   Smart   Class  
  • Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.

    Teacher   Nature   Smart  
  • The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.

  • Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

    Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.48, University of Arizona Press
  • Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.

    Nature   Mean   Land  
    Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.32, Taylor Trade Publications
  • Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.

    Interview with Bill Moyers on PBS miniseries "A World of Ideas" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 17, 1988.
  • The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.

    Nature   Smart   Space  
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