out of the interaction of the folk and their place, through the work, the simple life of the community develops. at the same time, each of these elements carries with it its specific spiritual heritage. the people have teir customs and manners and morals and laws ; or as we might say more briefly, their institutions ; the work has its technology, its craft experience, from the simple lore of peasant and breeder to the complicated formulae of the modern chemists and metallurgists ; while the deeper perception of the "place," through the analysis of the falling stone, the rising sun, the running water, the decomposing vegetation, and the living animal gives rise to the tradition of "learning" and science.

 

lewis mumford 

sticks and stones