They sewed fig leaves together—the first human act after the consumption of the fruit is cultural, the creation of that basic cultural good called clothing. They make something of the world. They are no longer freely and spontaneously naming God’s good creation; they are no longer cultivating the good Garden; now they are protecting themselves from the sudden alienation they feel from one another and their own bodies. But what they are doing is culture—creating and cultivating—all the same.

—Culture Making, p.114