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Lewis Mumford

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Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.


— Lewis Mumford


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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.


— Lewis Mumford


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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


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Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.


— Lewis Mumford


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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.


— Lewis Mumford


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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.


— Lewis Mumford


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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.


— Lewis Mumford


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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.


— Lewis Mumford


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Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.


— Lewis Mumford


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Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.


— Lewis Mumford


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A Mumford essay also tends to be multidisciplinary combining. Life
Mumford was born in Flushing Queens New York and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1912. He viewed this device as the key invention of the whole Industrial Revolution contrary to the common view of the steam engine holding the prime position writing: "The clock not the steam-engine is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.

Mumford was influenced by the work of Scottish theorist Sir Patrick Geddes and worked closely with his associate the British sociologist Victor Branford. Bacon and Vannevar Bush. Mumford was also a contemporary and friend of Frank Lloyd Wright Clarence Stein Frederic Osborn Edmund N.

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