Tom Hylton Quotations

A tree root won?t get into your sewer line unless there?s something already wrong with your sewer line. I know most people don?t want to hear that, but it?s true.

Cars and people get along much better if the cars are going slowly.

It's partially mind-set, but it is mostly who gets involved. When certain citizens get involved and believe strongly in something, they can influence development patterns. It's never too late for whatever has not been ruined.

In North Carolina, great care has been done to make sure that nothing has intruded on the vistas and if you just changed the car to a Cadillac Fleetwood, you easily could be back to the 1940s. But when I crossed the border into Virginia, I was dismayed to suddenly be looking into people's back yards and to see nondescript housing plopped here and there on the hillsides, which ended the motorway's magical vista.

Eighty percent of the street trees in Paris are London plane trees.