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“I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild.”

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Jane Goodall, born on April 3, 1934, is a renowned primatologist. She is best known for her groundbreaking research on chimpanzees and is considered one of the founders of modern primatology. Dr. Goodall's work has had a profound impact on our understanding of animal behavior. more

“Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value of all forms of culture, and thus serves as a check to an exaggerated valuation of the standpoint of our own period, which we are only too liable to consider the ultimate goal of human evolution, thus depriving ourselves of the benefits to be gained from the teachings of other cultures and hindering an objective criticism of our own work.”

“Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists.”

Mean Science Wealth Liberty Genius Civilization Resources Scientist Our Family Soil Sanctity Guarding

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving them leads to laws and social institutions. The discovery of peculiar arts gives superiority to particular nations ... to subjugate other nations, who learn their arts, and ultimately adopt their manners;- so that in reality the origin as well as the progress and improvement of civil society is founded in mechanical and chemical inventions.”

Source: Salmonia: or, Days of fly-fishing; in a series of conversations: with some account of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. Consolation in travel, or, The last days of a philosopher

“The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.”

Ifs Doe Ends Facts Science Energy Modern Wind Failure Civilization Future Remains Organs Deprived Modern Civilization

Book:Matter and energy

Source: Matter and energy

“The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.”

Loss Pay Civilization Guilt

Book:Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.”

Reason Humanity Civilization Weapons Perfection Destruction Instruments Sole Philanthropic

Author:Jules Verne

“The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.”

Ifs Knows World Littles States Use Earth Science Energy Planets Fit Please Civilization Skills Tidy Meteors

Author:J. B. Priestley

“There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.”

Thinking Men Way Differences Race Personality Civilization Connections Fundamentals Civilized Primitive Way Of Thinking

Author:Franz Boas

“This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.”

Soul Science Society Civilization Extraordinary Iron Metals Civilised Civilised Society

Book:Men of Invention and Industry

Source: Men of Invention and Industry

“Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.”

Modern Civilization Admire Engines Electric Steam Telegraph Modern Civilization Steam Engines

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

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