QUOTES
We
have reached a point at which we must either consciously desire and choose and
determine the future of the earth or submit to such an involvement in our destructiveness
that the earth, and ourselves with it, must certainly be destroyed. And we have
come to this at a time when it is hard, if not impossible, to foresee a future
that is not terrifying.
"Rats
and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the
privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy."
"Laugh.
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts."
"There
is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the American flag
when we tolerate, encourage, and as a daily business promote the desecration of
the Country for which it stands."
"Invest
in the millennium. Plant sequoias."
"The
line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed
by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're
living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare -- warfare against human
beings, other creatures and the Earth itself."
The
most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the
courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage
to tell us that we must be less greedy and wasteful.
We
do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving
and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently
and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable
economy."
So,
friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world.
Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not
deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that
free republic for which it stands.
"To
cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate
hope of survival."
A
sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land
The
Futility of Global Thinking
1. Beware the justice of Nature.
2. Understand
that there can be no successful human economy apart from Nature or in defiance
of Nature.
3. Understand that no amount of education can overcome the innate
limits of human intelligence and responsibility. We are not smart enough or conscious
enough or alert enough to work responsibly on a gigantic scale.
4. In making
things always bigger and more centralized, we make them both more vulnerable in
themselves and more dangerous to everything else. Learn, therefore, to prefer
small-scale elegance and generosity to large-scale greed, crudity, and glamour.
5. Make a home. Help to make a community. Be loyal to what you have made.
6. Put the interest of the community first.
7. Love your neighbors--not the
neighbors you pick out, but the ones you have.
8. Love this miraculous world
that we did not make, that is a gift to us.
9. As far as you are able make
your lives dependent upon your local place, neighborhood, and household--which
thrive by care and generosity--and independent of the industrial economy, which
thrives by damage.
10. Find work, if you can, that does no damage. Enjoy
your work. Work well.
