The modern city consists of monstrous edifices and of dark, narrow streets full of petrol fumes and toxic gases, torn by the noise of the taxicabs, lorries and buses, and thronged ceaselessly by great crowds.
" A city gave me a proclamation, because the occupancy rate and the motels in Santa Fe was up 6 percent two years in a row and nobody could figure out why" .
This growth is due to rising car sales and ample credit as banks, finance companies and car makers' financing arms compete to lend to consumers, either directly or via car dealers.
We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.
With lockdowns in place around the world, there are fewer vibrations in the Earth that are normally caused by highway traffic, trains, busses, people moving around going about their daily lives.
I think we'll learn to control the weather, volcanoes and earthquakes. Illness won't exist. We'll grow new livers, kidneys, hearts, and lungs like spare parts for a car.