Aceptar como tema de discusión, una categoría que nos parece falsa nos expone siempre a un riesgo: el de mantener, en virtud de la atención que se le… - Claude Lévi-Strauss

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are "good to eat" but because they are "good to think." [Les espèces sont choisies non commes bonnes à manger, mais comme bonnes à penser.]

Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs

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.