Lewis Mumford Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

  Lewis Mumford

  Technology, Arbitrary, Novelty

• The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

  Lewis Mumford

  Running, Spiritual, Long

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.16, University of Chicago Press

• If there are favourable habitats and favorable forms of association for animalsand plants, as ecology demonstrates, why not for men? If each particular natural environment has has its own balance; is there not perhaps an equivalent of this in culture?

  Lewis Mumford

  Men, Balance, Culture

  "The Culture of Cities, Secker & Warburg". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1938.

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