Page 210-211 of colloquium reader
"A sane civilization that loved more fully and intelligently would have more parks and fewer shopping malls; more small farms and fewer agri-businesses; more prosperous small towns and smaller cities; more solar collectors and fewer strip mines; more bicycle trails and fewer freeways; more trains and fewer cars; more celebration and less hungry; more property owners and fewer millionaires and billionaires; more readers and fewer television watchers; more shopkeepers and fewer multinational corporations; more teachers and fewer lawyers; more wilderness and fewer landfills; more wild animals and fewer pets."
This pretty much sums up how I feel about our modern world. There are a lot of evil things today. We have the power to create an incredibly loving community, but we choose to divide ourselves. We reward competition and we live life with the business as usual attitude. I always feel like I'm trying to stay afloat. Its not a very good feeling to know the thing I love so much is corrupted and polluted. I have always dreamed of a simpler world with no cars, planes, trains, automobiles, corporations, currency, power plants, law books, landfills, zoos, and cities. I dream of a place where we can carry on as a human race. A place where you wake up and eat straight from the trees and the rivers. Music, love, and nature are the only things that save my soul from drowning in this world of insanity.
Page 188 & 192 of colloquium reader
"I think it is evident that tribal cultures possessed an ecological innocence of sorts because they did not have the possibilities or the knowledge given to us." "Is mass biophobia a kind of collective madness? In time I think we will come to know that it is."
We have to go back to the nomadic ways of weaving through the damage we have created. We have to go back to our roots if we want this planet to support the human race. We can't replace the natural REAL world with our INVENTED technologies. Everything we know can be linked to the creation of a language. Language is the liquid we're all dissolved in. Perhaps people should stop talking and take it easy for a while. People need to stop talking, stop trying to dominate, and listen to what nature is trying to tell us. We live a life so distanced from nature that we have cut ourselves off. Without a sense of biophilia we create a biophobia. There are so many people drowning in a world cut off from love and emotion.
Page 198 of colloquium reader
"We are now engaged in a great global debate about what it means to live sustainably on the Earth."
I chose this quote because I feel like there is nothing to argue about. We all know in our hearts what it takes to be "sustainable". We have to live alongside nature. That is sustainability. Taking only what you need is sustainability. If we try to argue that anything else is sustainable then we are lying to ourselves.
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