No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. – Garrett Hardin, The Ecologist, February 1974

The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic. – James Marston Fitch, New York Times, 1 May 1960

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance,” 1841

Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety. – Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van