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Top 25 James Howard Kunstler Quotes (2024 Update)

James Howard Kunstler Quote: “Anything goes and nothing matters.”

1. “Anything goes and nothing matters.”

— James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler Quote: “When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.”

2. “When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.”

3. “The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “The culture of good place-making, like the culture of farming, or agriculture, is a body of knowledge and acquired skills. It is not bred in the bone, and if it is not transmitted from one generation to the next, it is lost.”

4. “The culture of good place-making, like the culture of farming, or agriculture, is a body of knowledge and acquired skills. It is not bred in the bone, and if it is not transmitted from one generation to the next, it is lost.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.”

5. “A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.”

6. “The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “Motion is a great tranquilizer.”

7. “Motion is a great tranquilizer.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people’s place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other.”

8. “On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people’s place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.”

9. “Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.”

— James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler Quote: “I like to call it ‘the national automobile slum.’ You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it’s appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.”

10. “I like to call it ‘the national automobile slum.’ You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it’s appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.”

11. “The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.”

12. “Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things.”

14. “The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “I don’t like talking about ‘solutions.’ I prefer talking about intelligent responses.”

15. “I don’t like talking about ‘solutions.’ I prefer talking about intelligent responses.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.”

16. “Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “Tradition evolves with time and place while holding strongly to certain formal, cultural, and personal principles. Nostalgia seeks the security of past forms without the inherent principles.”

17. “Tradition evolves with time and place while holding strongly to certain formal, cultural, and personal principles. Nostalgia seeks the security of past forms without the inherent principles.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.”

18. “It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we’re running, the way we’re running it.”

19. “No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we’re running, the way we’re running it.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “The car, is the other connection to the outside world, but to be precise it connects the inhabitants to the inside of the car, not to the outside world per se. The outside world is only an element for moving through, as submarines move through water.”

20. “The car, is the other connection to the outside world, but to be precise it connects the inhabitants to the inside of the car, not to the outside world per se. The outside world is only an element for moving through, as submarines move through water.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.”

21. “Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “The nation was cracking under the weight of bloated modernity and all the patches pasted onto its excessive and malfunctioning hypercomplexity, and people were bewildered by the strange glitches, failures and shortages. Going forward, nothing would really work anymore as it was designed to, yet the hope and expectation that it would all magically recover dominated the chatter in the rare moments when people could step back from their frantic lives and share a meal or a drink.”

22. “The nation was cracking under the weight of bloated modernity and all the patches pasted onto its excessive and malfunctioning hypercomplexity, and people were bewildered by the strange glitches, failures and shortages. Going forward, nothing would really work anymore as it was designed to, yet the hope and expectation that it would all magically recover dominated the chatter in the rare moments when people could step back from their frantic lives and share a meal or a drink.”

— James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler Quote: “If the Internet exists at all in the future, it will be on a much-reduced scale from what we enjoy today, and all the activities of everyday life are not going to reside on it.”

23. “If the Internet exists at all in the future, it will be on a much-reduced scale from what we enjoy today, and all the activities of everyday life are not going to reside on it.”

— James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler Quote: “Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It’s a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.”

24. “Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It’s a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.”

— James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler Quote: “My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there’s no question we’re going to have to rely on them. For me, it’s an issue of scale.”

25. “My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there’s no question we’re going to have to rely on them. For me, it’s an issue of scale.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “There is no shortage of apologists for the ubiquitous highway crud.”

26. “There is no shortage of apologists for the ubiquitous highway crud.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.”

27. “America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.”

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James Howard Kunstler Quote: “Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.”

28. “Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.”

— James Howard Kunstler

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