A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic.

There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses

A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants.

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

What is often being argued, it seems to me, in the idea of nature is the idea of man; and this not only generally, or in ultimate ways, but the idea of man in society, indeed the ideas of kinds of societies.