Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.

"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.

The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.

I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.

... Their power to see environments as they really are.

The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.