Turner

“... democracy doesn't mean majority rule; rather, it means freedom and equality for all. Democracy is a system that guarantees everyone certain liberties, which even the majority cannot take away.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“Instead of changing the land to suit their convenience, they changed themselves. Eating with the seasons is a way of honoring abundance, by going to meet it when and where it arrives.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

“The next stage of human economy will parallel what we are beginning to understand about nature. It will call forth the gifts of each of us; it will emphasize cooperation over competition; it will encourage circulation over hoarding; and it will be cyclical, not linear. Money may not disappear anytime soon, but it will serve a diminished role even as it takes on more of the properties of the gift. The economy will shrink, and our lives will grow.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

“One of the chief lessons of history is that many of the things that we consider natural and eternal are, in fact, man-made and mutable.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI