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.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

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.

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

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

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

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.