William Irwin Thompson Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• 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.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Player, Long, Mind

  William Irwin Thompson (2015). “Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition”, p.95, Andrews UK Limited

• 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.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Heart, Names, Tree

  William Irwin Thompson (1978). “Darkness and Scattered Light: Four Talks on the Future”, Anchor Books

• 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.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Distance, Moving, Environmental

  William Irwin Thompson (2001). “Transforming History: A Curriculum for Cultural Evolution”, Lindisfarne Press

• Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Mistake, Culture, Institutions

  William Irwin Thompson (2015). “Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition”, p.95, Andrews UK Limited

• The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Teacher, Past, Culture

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