This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.