“Accessible?pragmatic even?Russell’s proposals speak to goals on the immediate horizon and underscore the role that intelligent design can play now in America.”

On a longer horizon, his analysis points to a range of issues about land use, transportation, and coordination of public and private investments to which the design professions have an enormous contribution to make. Here design and policy find common ground.

James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America’s energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to conventional thinking.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’

This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real.

[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn’t a servant because they don’t slam doors.

A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.