The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are being fashioned, demand the elimination of a prodigious mass of noxious by-products which now contaminate the globe. The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.


Chapter 4 : The Quest for Power, p. 38 - Tristes Tropiques (1955)

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quotes

The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are...

The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are...

The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are...

The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are...