Appropriation Quote by J. Andrew Schrecker

“culture is as much an infrastructure as it is ideas.”

— James Davison Hunter

“Imagine cities that resemble forests, technologies that heal rather than harm, and societies rooted in balance and cooperation.”

— Ken Breniman

“Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the…

— William Cronon

“Culture in the broadest sense includes all the labor which human power expends on nature.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Whether people are united by navigable waterways or cut off by rugged mountains or other geographical barriers has enormous cultural as well as economic…

— Thomas Sowell

“Great cultures bring problems and disagreements to the surface and solve them well, and they love imagining and building great things that haven’t been…

— Ray Dalio

“Without touch, what kind of culture do we create? One where isolation and disconnection reign.”

— Ken Breniman

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack…

— Donald Miller

Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may,…

— Bahá'u'lláh

“Ideas and their creators run the world…one’s place in the world is due partially to the ideas that a culture has forced on one…

— Haki R. Madhubuti