“Inhabitants of urban industrial cultures have no point of contact with grain, chickens, cows, or, for that matter, with topsoil. We have no basis of experience to outweigh the arguments of political vegetarians. We have no idea what plants, animals, or soil eat, or how much. Which means we have no idea what we ourselves are eating.”
― The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
― The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
“Unfortunately for the existing mature systems in nature, the rapid expansion of the human bubble is destroying them. Unfortunately for us, we can't exist without them any more than a living person can exist without oxygen or a body can exist without a head. In this sense, it is actually a conceptual error to define the environment as the rest of the biosphere save humans, and think of ourselves as apart from it, since we can't exist without it.”
― Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence
― Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence
“Rituals are missing nowadays”
― Revolution
― Revolution
“I believe that a revolution can begin from this one strand of straw. Seen at a glance, this rice straw may appear light and insignificant. Hardly anyone would believe that it could start a revolution. Nevertheless, I have come to realize the weight and power of this straw.”
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“Diversity, not uniformity, is what works.”
― Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
― Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
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