Let us face the future of Port Stephens and look at the spectacle of a city completely beautiful, correct in its location, in its design and in its solution of its various types of buildings. There is no reason why the earliest buildings as well as the later ones should not be correct and correctly placed and all beautiful for as we have seen in our preceding studies beauty is not an expense but calls simply for the expenditure of mind and spirit which are not depleted by use but the contrary. In other words, it calls for the use of human faculties — thinking, feeling and will (doing).
- “Magic of America” by Marion Mahony Griffin