Lynn Townsend White, Jr. famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
-- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

#Christian #Mother #Men
Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologic crisis can be expected from them alone. Since the roots of our trouble are so largely religious, the remedy must also be essentially religious, whether we call it that or not. We must rethink and refeel our nature and destiny.
-- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

#Christian #Religious #Destiny
Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.
-- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

#History #Contemporary
History is a means of access to ourselves.
-- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

#Mean #History
The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.
-- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

#Past #Hands #History
We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.
-- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

#Change #Mistake #Eras
If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, your the government.
-- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

#Government #Corporations #Small Business
[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.
-- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

#History #Humanity #Couches
Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.
-- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

#Glasses #Physicians #Stones
More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.
-- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

#Technology #Ecological Crisis #Crisis

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