"Civilised man refused to adapt himself to his environment, instead he adapted his environment to suit him. So he built cities, roads, vehicles, machinery, and he put up power-lines to run his labour-saving devices. But somehow, he didn’t know when to stop.

The more he improved his surroundings to make his life easier, the more complicated he made it. And civilised man who refused to adapt himself to his natural surroundings now finds that he has to adapt and re-adapt himself every day and every hour of the day to his self-created environment."