Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.

With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.

Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature.

You cannot see the Milky Way in New York City any more ... We risk the loss of our sensual perception. And if you lose those, naturally, you try to compensate by other stimulations, by very loud noises, or by bright lights or drugs.

Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.

Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.