Quotes by Mumford, Lewis

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about th >>

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy i >>

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical e >>

Quotations about Life and Living

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forg >>

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despis >>

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your futu >>

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis