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“The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
“People don't need enormous cars; they need admiration and respect. They don't need a constant stream of new clothes; they need to feel that others consider them to be attractive, and they need excitement and variety and beauty. People don't need electronic entertainment; they need something interesting to occupy their minds and emotions. And so forth. Trying to fill real but nonmaterial needs-for identity, community, self-esteem, challenge, love, joy-with material things is to set up an unquenchable appetite for false solutions to never-satisfied longings. A society that allows itself to admit and articulate its nonmaterial human needs, and to find nonmaterial ways to satisfy them, world require much lower material and energy throughputs and would provide much higher levels of human fulfillment.”
― Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
― Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
“The most beautiful part of your body
is where it’s headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.”
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is where it’s headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.”
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“Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite.”
― Community and Growth
― Community and Growth
“We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)”
― God is No Laughing Matter: An Artist's Observations and Objections on the Spiritual Path
― God is No Laughing Matter: An Artist's Observations and Objections on the Spiritual Path
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