There was no place for an elderly person to sit down and no trees for birds to land. There's little if any public art. It's a depressing sort of sensation.

At the end of May … we all start to act like villagers.

Most problems are simply missed opportunities. The flip side of every problem is a solution.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore

In Berkeley, the crowd was really encroaching on the place where the skiers were supposed to land. So if you're one of those skiers, it looks like you're landing in a mass of people. It had to be really scary.

So it turns out an only private-land preserve wasn't going to be able to meet legal (standards). The only thing that seems to work is a combination of public and private lands.