Quotes About Culture

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.

... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.

a culture is no better than its woods

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a way of connecting, and saying thanks.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.