Ernest Callenbach > Quotes

“But what matters most is the aspiration to live in balance with nature, "walk lightly on the land," treat the earth as a mother. No surprise that to such a morality most industrial processes, work schedules, and products are suspect!”
― Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia

“People were to be happy not to the extent they dominated their fellow creatures on the earth, but to the extent they lived in balance with them”
― Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia

“It is so hard to imagine anything fundamentally different from what we have now. But without these alternate visions, we get stuck on dead center. And we’d better get ready. We need to know where we’d like to go.”
― Ernest Callenbach

“We must know the facts and be guided by them...nature does not forgive fools nor does she spare them the penalties of their folly”
― Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia Emerging

“Then I had to learn that truth was not some single easy thing you could "know" automatically, but an uneasy and always tentative compound of facts, inferences, balances - inherently hypothetical even when it seems altogether obvious”
― Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia

“There is beauty in weathered and unpainted wood, in orchards overgrown, even in abandoned cars being incorporated into the earth... let us embrace decay, for it is the source of all new life and growth.”
― Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia