“We protect the past. And the way I see it, that means we need to understand it.”
“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.”
“[The past] has a way of hanging around, demanding we understand it and weave it into ourselves so that we can go on.”
“I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.”
“Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way.”
“If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing.”