Stephen Jay Gould Quote

Will we ever again be able to view a public object with civic dignity, unencumbered by commercial messages? Must city buses be fully painted as movable ads, lampposts smothered, taxis festooned, even seats in concert halls sold one by one to donors and embellished in perpetuity with their names on silver plaques?

"The Lying Stones of Marrakech", p. 25 - The Lying Stones of Marrakech (2001)