"Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity for its own benefit and for that of the natural world, all ecological problems will have their roots in social problems."

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Source : Janet Biehl, Murray Bookchin (1999). “The Murray Bookchin Reader”, p.53, Black Rose Books Ltd.

Murray Bookchin

#Creativity Quotes #Roots Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it thereâ€™s nothing there. Itâ€™s just you holding yourself back.”
“It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that”
“I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.”
“When levitation fails, a ladder prevails.”
“I can't say I've seen any formalized white supremacy grow. I was a selfish leader and never trained anybody to train over my group. It scattered when I left.”

Source : Source: chicagoist.com
“The impression I got during the research and interview process was that they are trying to own the disease and therefore own the cause which can ultimately be more profitable for some corporations and fund-raising groups.”
“Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality as a slow-motion explosion, as pouring itself out and passing away, as dissemination. We live in a postmodern epoch in which there is nothing absolute, nothing permanent and nothing substantial.”

Source : Don Cupitt (2010). “Theology's Strange Return”, p.69, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
“Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.”

Source : "Rescue". Book by Czeslaw Milosz, 1945.

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