The Relation Of Feeling Toward Art And

The Threat To Man Does Not Come In The First Instance From The Potentially Lethal Machines And Apparatus Of Technology. The Actual Threat Has Already Affected Man In His Essence. The Rule Of Enframing Threatens Man With The Possibility That It Could Be Denied To Him To Enter Into A More Original Revealing And Hence To Experience The Call Of A More Primal Truth

Philosophy Will Not Be Able To Effect An Immediate Transformation Of The Present Condition Of The World. This Is Not Only True Of Philosophy, But Of All Merely Human Thought And Endeavor.

From Our Human Experience And History, At Least As Far As I Am Informed, I Know That Everything Essential And Great Has Only Emerged When Human Beings Had A Home And Were Rooted In A Tradition. Today's Literature Is, For Instance, Largely Destructive.

To Dwell Is To Garden.

I Take Great Pleasure, Every Day, In Seeing My Work Deeply Rooted In Our Native Soil.