Lewis Mumford Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

  Lewis Mumford

  Humanity, Brotherhood, Earth

  Lewis Mumford (1954). “In the Name of Sanity”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

• Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.

  Lewis Mumford

  Earth, Safe

  William L. Thomas, William L. Thomas (Jr.), Carl Ortwin Sauer, Lewis Mumford (1956). “Man's role in changi”

• Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.

  Lewis Mumford

  Men, Earth, Combination

  Lewis Mumford (2013). “The Story of Utopias”, p.181, Read Books Ltd

• (The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources which, once expended and dissipated, can never be restored; and second, in its technique, its habits, its processes, the paleotechnic period is equally inimical to the earth considered as a human habitat, by its destruction of the beauty of the landscape, its ruining of streams, its pollution of drinking water, its filling the air with a finely divided carboniferous deposit, which chokes both life and vegetation.

  Lewis Mumford

  Drinking, Air, Water

  "The Theory and Practice of Regionalism". The Sociological Review, vol. 20, nos. 1 and 2, 1928.

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