“The buildings our predecessors constructed paid
homage to history in their design, including elegant solutions to
age-old problems posed by the cycles of weather and light, and they paid
respect to the future in the sheer expectation that they would endure
through the lifetimes of the people who built them. They therefore
embodied a sense of chronological connectivity, one of the fundamental
patterns of the universe: an understanding that time is a defining
dimension of existence—particularly the existence of living things, such
as human beings, who miraculously pass into life and then inevitably
pass out of it.”
— James Howard Kunstler, Home From Nowhere, 1996
— James Howard Kunstler, Home From Nowhere, 1996
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