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“We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed.”

“To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.”

Form Culture Grows Nature Wealth Animal Growing Up Intimate Vegetables Association Irreplaceable

Book:Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

Source: Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

“No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged.”

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Author:John Muir

“Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. The same does not apply for already constructed worlds and cultures. They are neither universal nor easily shareable.”

Men World Doe Use Culture Nature Men And Women Female Universal Males

Book:Sharing the world

Source: Sharing the world

“Culture means control over nature.”

Mean Culture Nature

Author:Johan Huizinga

“The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples -- they are not the same, today's culture and society have become rather indifferent to the delicate and serious nature of this passage.”

Today Culture Nature Church Serious Couple Married Engaged Distinction Passages Delicate Indifferent Married Couples

Author:Pope Francis

“We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.”

Matter Culture Nations Nature Moral Class Society Normal Oneself Mature Murderer

Book:The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise

Source: The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise

“The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture”

Men Culture Nature Claims Victim Feminist Prostitution Criminal Mind Conqueror Outlaw Courtesans

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“a culture is no better than its woods”

Culture Nature Climate Woods

Author:W. H. Auden

“Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance.”

Knows Culture Asks Nature Animal Humility Bears Guidance Native Survived Nests Ravens Redwoods

Book:Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

Source: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

“I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.”

Life Home Might Lasts Desire Culture House Strong Nature Study Masters Garden Simplicity Moderates Convenience Covetousness

Book:The Poems of Abraham Cowley

Source: The Poems of Abraham Cowley