Jorah Roussopoulos, co-owner with his partner Andi Rubalcaba of the first solar-powered biodiesel pump in the country in Ben Lomond, California, understands this implicitly.

On Sept 30 at 12:40pm, a bunch of young boys at the Ben Lomond Highlands skatepark near Senior Center were leaving, riding their skateboards at an excessive speed through the small parking lot at the senior center with seniors coming out after lunch.

Because of their certainty and graphic energy, his drawings are more likely to engage our aesthetic interest today than many of the paintings he celebrated-- Holman Hunt's The Light of the World, 1853-56, Millais's The Order of Release, 1852-53, and John Brett's Val d'Acosta, 1858, at the Tate, and Paul Naftel's Head of Loch Lomond, with Ben Lomond in the Distance, 1859, at Yale, to name just a few.