Loss of Heritage
June Samaras <[email protected]>
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In a discussion of the burning of Notre Dame someone quotes this : <<<In a 1975 essay, "The Preservation of Old Buildings," Wendell Berry wrote: "The question is whether we are to be tourists or participants in our heritage. I am interested in the question because I believe it to be an eminently practical one: I do not believe that tourists can preserve anything, including themselves, for very long. And one of the tragedies of the modern world is that it has made us tourists of our own destiny. It has taught us to turn to the past for diversion rather than instruction. It has taught us to look into our inheritance for curiosities rather than patterns." >>> June S -- June Samaras 2020 Old Station Rd Streetsville,Ontario Canada L5M 2V1 Tel : 905-542-1877 E-mail : [email protected] -- June Samaras 2020 Old Station Rd Streetsville,Ontario Canada L5M 2V1 Tel : 905-542-1877 E-mail : [email protected]