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“I don't want to be overly dramatic about it, but I think people more and more wonder, is this living, or are we just going through the motions? What's happening? Is everything being leached out of life? Is the whole texture and values and everything kind of draining away?”
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“Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.”
― The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
― The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
“...along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world.”
― The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
― The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
“People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.”
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Graphic Novel Reading Group
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This is a place where lovers of the Sequential Art form of Literature (graphic novels, comic books, manga, etc.) can get together and talk about their ...more
Peak Oil
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Discuss books about and related to Peak Oil? How does that sound?
Deep Green Resistance (Glen Ellyn, IL): Readings
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Deep Green Resistance (Glen Ellyn, IL): Readings is a forum for discussion about and readings concerning the current social, cultural, and political c ...more
Genus Rex Reading Group
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— last activity Aug 06, 2012 09:35PM
This is a Reading list for anybody interested in the Genus Rex Program or the ideas discussed by it.
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