Bones Quote by Pablo Picasso

More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots…

— Charles Lindbergh

“The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than modern ones.…

— Anonymous

Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity…

— Aldo Leopold

“It’s sometimes argued that there’s no real progress; that a civilization that kills multitudes in mass warfare, that pollutes the land and oceans with…

— Robert M. Pirsig

We have grown as primitive man to modern ways and are now looking for modern man to grow from merely primitive choices

— Alexander Fennis

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

— Charles Baudelaire

Everything is sold to skill and labor; and where nature furnishes the materials, they are still rude and unfinished, till industry, ever active and…

— David Hume

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

— Aldo Leopold

“If you had a yard as a child, you probably remember it with a startling intimacy. You knew that yard: every inch, every bush,…

— Sam Sheridan

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was…

— Aldo Leopold

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

— Charles Lindbergh