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What Have We Lost?
Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the devil strive for mastery, and the battleground is the heart of men.
— Dostoyevsky
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An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. He has to tell, because nobody else in the world can tell, what it is like to be alive…
— James Baldwin
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Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god… No river contains a spirit… no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.
— Carl Jung
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I don’t know if you’ve been to a Lowe’s or Home Depot in recent years, but you can basically build a whole American home that looks like a Colonial Revival — columns, shutters, windows, siding — and the entire thing is plastic, is PVC,”
— Jonsara Ruth, design director for the Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons School of Design.
