Thor Heyerdahl Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Cutting, Space, Giving

• It is progress when weapons are improved to kill more people at a longer range.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  People, Progress, Weapons

• Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Simple, Men, Civilization

  "Two-Way Ticket to Paradise', book review of Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva". The New York Times, August 29, 1975.

• We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another vision of Nature. We call it 'wilderness,' and we think it is progress to get further and further away from it. How crazy! Where would we have been if Nature had not built us up?

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Crazy, Men, Thinking

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