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- Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
- It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
- God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
- Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
- Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
- Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
- Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
- We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
- I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our…
- No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's…
- There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
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