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By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to

By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg!

Lewis Mumford

Civilization, Eggs, Growth

Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail

Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things; for all one does in maturity is to carve in granite or porphyry the soap bubble one blew in youth! Oh to have dreamed harder!

Lewis Mumford

Dream, Regret, Maturity

Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail

Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved.

Lewis Mumford

Doe, May, Patterns

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

Lewis Mumford

War, Corruption, Producers

Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause that denies the need for such lectures. Avaunt, importuning world! Back to my cell.

Lewis Mumford

Cells, Heaven, Needs

Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.

Lewis Mumford

Good Life, Garden, Expression

Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.

Lewis Mumford

Men, America, Safety

Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

Lewis Mumford

Humanity, Brotherhood, Earth

Lewis Mumford (1954). “In the Name of Sanity”, New York : Harcourt, Brace