“ Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer. Roger Scruton
“ He placed a pinch of snow on his tongue and thought of making snow ice cream with Frank and their mother when they were small boys - 'First you stir in the vanilla' - Frank standing on a stool on his… Emily St. John Mandel
“ Human being living at the level of biomass will comply with all standards and patterns that are required by the surroundings and society Sunday Adelaja
“ [The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns...We are now...only beginning… Ralph Linton
“ To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives.… Oliver Sacks
“ A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. Maurice Strong
“ I wonder at the starry pattern in the skyAre they little pieces of moon which want to fly..? Munia Khan
“ If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there… Robert Greene
“ There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behavior seeping out from w… Richard K. Morgan
