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“Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.”

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Book:Transforming History: A Curriculum for Cultural Evolution
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“If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on stone monuments, but would instead place the naked body in the earth and plant a tree above the silent heart.”

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Book:Darkness and Scattered Light: Four Talks on the Future
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“For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.”

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Book:Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition
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