Quotes About Community

Yes, Mr. Popham is a Methodist and I'm a Congregationalist, but I say let the children go where they like, so I always take them with me.

We make ourselves into the net that we throw across the ocean

Standing in the dusk watching the great yellow eye of the tram light rushing towards her, she understood why some words were worth binding in leather and handing on. In the darkest hour, all the other humans who'd known dark hours were there with you. They'd been to the dark places before you, and they were with you now.

What he had not learned from Latin or Greek he was learning from the people of New South Wales. It was this: you did not learn a language without entering into a relationship with the people who spoke it with you. His friendship with Tagaran was not a list of objects, or the words for things eaten or not eaten, thrown or not thrown. It was the slow constructing of the map of a relationship.

When a dangerous dog falls ill, who will come to help?

everyone has to knit when they're here. ... But not every person has to use yarn.

But what Dakota most enjoyed about the beginning of winter was the crispness of the air (that practically demanded the wearing of knits) and the way that tough New Yorkers - on the street, in elevators, in subways - were suddenly willing to risk a smile. To make a connection with a stranger. To finally see one another after strenuously avoiding eye contact all year.

Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things.

What's wrong with just talking? Isn't that why bars were invented? So you could talk to somebody over a drink—as opposed to sitting at home alone getting sloshed?

Many things can cause us to worry, but a kind word or deed can do wonders. Sometimes that's all we need to feel better.

You could eat the air in the place, so thick with bread and warmth that it stang our cheeks.

Luminous Processes,' declared the local paper, 'seems to put profits before people.' How quickly we forget.

It was a place where folks were happy simply to get on with life: raise their families, do good work, live decent lives.

I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.

And I shall set this last truth down. We are who we are because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.

we are who we are because of those we we choose to love and because of those who love us

Long ago, before England was cut up with pavement, or bisected by railways, there existed in the county of Lancashire a small village named Reston that never bothered anyone.

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

Homo sapiens, it turns out, is the most cooperative species on the planet, outperforming ants, hyenas, and even the naked mole-rat when it comes to living alongside those who are beyond our next of kin.

hoard too—but the striking fact is that we share at all.22 Homo sapiens, it turns out, is the most cooperative species on the planet, outperforming ants, hyenas, and even the naked mole-rat when it comes to living alongside those who are beyond our next of kin.

we WEIRD ones typically practise what is known as 'strong reciprocity': we are conditional cooperators (tending to cooperate so long as others do too) but also altruistic punishers (ready to punish defectors and free riders even if it costs us personally). And it is the combination of these two traits that leads to the success of large-scale cooperation in society.

improving designs online for free. His idea soon grew into the Global Village Construction Set, which aims to demonstrate step-by-step how to build from scratch 50 universally useful machines, from tractors, brick makers and 3D printers to sawmills, bread ovens and wind turbines.

The Selfish Society.

In 1900, around 10 percent of people worldwide lived in cities; by 2050 around 70 percent of us will. Couple this proximity of city dwellers with worldwide communications transmitting news and views, data and ads, and what emerges is a dynamic global network of networks of human beings.