A tribe is nothing more than a coalition of people working together as equals to make a living.
Nothing in the community lives in isolation from the rest, not even the queens of the social insects. Nothing lives only in itself, needing nothing from the community. Nothing lives only for itself, o...
Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things.
But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, the...
To you, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism look very different, but to me they look the same. Many of you would say that something like Buddhism doesn't even belong on the list, sinc...
[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.
You’re captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.
You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live... I think there are many among you who would be glad to release the world from...
You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what...
To each is given its moment in the blaze, its spark to be surrendered to another when it is sent, so that the blaze may go on.
The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.
The evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do.Inside my apartment I'd felt inexplicably anxious. I needed to talk to someone, to be reassured. Or perhaps I ne...
No undesirable behavior has ever been eliminated by passing a law against it.
I find that the longer I live, the more I worry about people and the less I worry about rules.
Don’t wait. Writers are the only artists I know of who expect to get somewhere by waiting. Everyone knows you have to dance to be a dancer, you have to sing to be a singer, you have to act to be an ac...
Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they’re all designed to benefit the pupil—not the world - Ishmael
You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer
You must absolutely and forever relinquish the idea that you know who should live and who should die on this planet.
Tribal people get more out of life.
This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.