Culture Quote by Toby Hemenway Download Open image “A culture disconnected from wild nature becomes insane.” — Toby Hemenway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Disconnected Insane Nature
Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too. — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
All culture developed as some wild, raw creature strived to live better and longer. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection. — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
There is still a wildness inside people that we've spent millennia trying to tame. — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders. — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
Permaculture is not the movement of sustainability and it is not the philosophy behind it; it is the problem-solving approach the movement and the… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
“The average yard is both an ecological and agricultural desert. The prime offender is short-mown grass, which offers no habitat and nothing for people… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
I like to talk about the idea of "design without design," where... we're creating the conditions for the things that we want to see… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
When you are doing work of value, people will support you in a variety of ways, not just money. — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
I’m going to argue here that the most accurate and least muddled way to think of permaculture is as a design approach, and that… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
