As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.
California is always in my mind.
California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side, and I don't mean just physically, but the sunny side is a future. California's worth saving, to put it bluntly.
I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.
I resist and resent the idea of California as a metaphor. It's something thrust upon us, usually by people in the East.
I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California.
It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.
California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.
Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.
Whenever I go on holiday, I like to time travel and imagine what it must have been like 500 years ago. I love the Tuscan landscape, which is reminiscent of a Claude Lorrain painting.
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