The world began without the human race and it will end without it... Man has never-save only when he reproduces himself-done other than cheerfully dismantle millions upon millions of structures and reduce their elements to a state in which they can no longer be reintegrated.

Le monde à commencé sans l’homme et il s’achèvera sans lui... et sauf quand il se reproduit lui-même -, l’homme n’a rien fait d’autre qu’allégrement dissocier des milliards de étructures pour les réduire à un état où elles ne sont plus sus- ceptibles d'intégration.

Claude Levi-Strauss

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Levi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes Tropiques [Sad Tropics]. Librairie Plon, 1955, pt. 9, ch. 36.

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Levi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes Tropiques, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Penguin Classics, 2012, pt. 9, ch. 36.

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The world began without the human race and it will end without it... Man has never-save only when he reproduces himself-done other than cheerfully dismantle millions upon millions of structures and reduce their elements to a state in which they can no longer be reintegrated.