“The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are being fashioned, demand the elimination of a prodigious mass of noxious by-products which now contaminate the globe. The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.” WorldFirstsFacesOrderMankindProductsDemandAchievementMassHarmonyStructureWesternRoundsComplexityThrownGlobesLaboratoryEliminationWestern WorldFilthProdigious Book:Tristes Tropiques Source: Tristes Tropiques
“There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.” IfsWorldHumansI CanTodayHuman BeingsAnimalExistenceClearPlantSpeciesPoisonFinishingDisappearanceDensity Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.” WorldMomentsTermVisionPhotographyRemainsExhibitsSnapshotsSeize The Moment Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.” MenWorldFearAtheismRage Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.” WorldFirstsHumansHeartCountryEarthResponsibilityClassCrimeAdventureBearsCivilizationDiscoveryDestructionBelongingOur WorldNew WorldContinentsBeing HumanDwellers Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing” WorldWritingFactsSeemsSocietyAppearancePhenomenonLinked Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
