Smart Growth Quotes:

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.

- Will Rogers

topic: Nature, Smart, Order, Smart Growth

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Mean, Doe, Generations, Sunrise And Sunset, Land Conservation

'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.

- Albert Allen Bartlett

topic: Smart, Class, Differences, Population Growth, First Class

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.

- Ed McMahon

topic: Nature, Smart, Successful, Long Term, Common Denominator

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inner Voice, Improve Self Esteem

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Young Entrepreneurs, Fear None

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Democracy, Politics, Overpopulation, Human Dignity, World Population

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.

- Carl Guardino

topic: Nature, Smart, Class, World Class, Economic Success

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.

- Ed McMahon

topic: Nature, Smart, Community, No Reason, Smart Growth

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.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Smart, Home, Thinking, Smart Growth

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.

- Carl Guardino

topic: Teacher, Nature, Smart, Rant, Smart Growth

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.

- Douglas Malloch

topic: Attitude, Believe, Positive Attitude, Keep Believing, Happy Inspirational

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

- Elizabeth Bowen

source: "The Death Of The Heart".

topic: Country, Nature, Silence, Smart Growth

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

- Robert Frost

topic: Spring, Wind, Sun, March Poems, Spring Day

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

- Emily Dickinson

source: Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.27, Harvard University Press

topic: Nature, Smart, Butterfly, Smart Growth

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.

- Carl Guardino

topic: Nature, Smart, Successful, Land Use, Smart Growth

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

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.48, University of Arizona Press

topic: Nature, Conservation, Form, Paved Roads, Smart Growth

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.

- Carl Guardino

topic: Nature, Smart, Space, Open Spaces, Silicon