It is not quite safe to send out a venture in this kind, unless yourself go supercargo. Where a man goes, there he is; but the sli...ghtest virtue is immovable,--it is real estate, not personal; who would keep it, must consent to be bought and sold with it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [e...llipsis in source] take all the regulations away; weaken existing legislation; the endangered species act is too severe, too restrictive; let there be carte blanche for real-estate developers. Because if we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves, and it's easier to be numb, to be distracted, to be disengaged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim--for self-developm...ent, or the discovery of cosmic truths--when all you're really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Englishman, hidden behind his hedge or wall, is not interested in his neighbor's house, and the idea of wanting to read about ...houses bought, sold, or built by total strangers is not even funny; it is merely absurd.... But to an American, it is not only important, it is comforting, it is gratifying that other people are improving your home town; even people who have no personal economic stake in the rise of real-estate values feel the same kind of interest that makes a motherly woman smile with genuine amiability on the children of total strangers. The very linguistic difference between "house" and "home" is significant. All Americans who live in houses, not apartments, live in homes; the Englishman lives in his home but all his neighbors live in houses or flats.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I fee...l how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work ...if you mean to succeed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real e...state?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »