Quotes About Community

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.

Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to perserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

The simple justification for the elders and their work was Christ's detailed prescription in Matthew's Gospel for how Christians should deal with sinners among the faithful: first private admonition, then progressively more formal reprimands, and finally, if repentance was not forthcoming, expulsion from the community.

Tan extranjera, tan sin patria, sin lengua natal. Los que decían: , hablaban al menos, en plural.

PASTOR- Mi nombre verdadero es Juan. Poca cosa, ¿verdad? ¡Pero humano, señor, humano! Millares de Juanes han escrito libros y han plantado árboles. Millones de mujeres han dicho alguna vez en cualquier rincón del mundo <>. En cambio, ¿quién ha querido nunca al <>? Juan sabe a pueblo y a eternidad: es el hierro, la madera de roble, el pan de trigo. <> es el nylon.

Although really society should not change, it should mutate. And, little by little, it is mutating... ... Society is like the body of a chicken: the chicken's foot is hard and insensitive while the eye is very alive. And there are beings who embody the cells of the eyes and others who embody the cells of the feet, of the wings, or of the anus.

Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument.

It's not about where you belong, it's about what belongs to you," I told her...I was twenty-seven (and a half) and Sarajevo belonged to me.

What is life? This is no life. Who wants this life? The dead leave it to us to struggle in this world. They go elsewhere, wherever it is, and wait for God to sort it all out. But we have to stay here, no matter how hard it is. Nobody can be alone. Life is the life of others. My life, your life, that is nothing.

You have to be taught to recognize and care about differences, you have to be instructed who you really are; you have to learn how generations of dead people and their incomprehensible accomplishments made you the way you are; you have to define your loyalty to an abstraction-based herd that transcends your individuality.

Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

the true choice is between losing it all and creating what we are about to lose: only this could eventually save us, in a profound sense . . . The possible awakening of the bomb is not simply 'let's do all in our power to prevent it before it's too late', but rather 'let's first build this totality (unity, community, freedom) that we are about to lose through the bomb.

The women urged him to be calm, patient, and prudent. "Tomorrow," Lucia said, "Padre Cristoforo will surely come, and you'll see for yourself that he'll find the kind of solution that we common folk cannot even imagine.

Alzandosi tutti, vedevano né più né meno che se fossero stati tutti con le piante in terra; ma tant'è, tutti s'alzavano.

la patria e' dove si sta bene..

Samintar." Everyone