“…love defines
the difference between the ‘global village,’ which is a technological and
totalitarian ideal, directly suited to the purposes of centralized governments
and corporations, and the Taoist village-as-globe, where the people live
frugally and at peace, pleased with the good qualities of necessary things, so
satisfied where they are that they live and die without visiting the next
village, though they can hear its dogs bark and its roosters crow.”
(“Standing by
Words”)
“There can be no such thing as a ‘global village.’
No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it
only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we
live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to
humanity.”
(“The Unsettling of America”)
“In making
things always bigger and more centralized, we make them both more vulnerable in
themselves and more dangerous to everything else. Learn, therefore, to prefer
small-scale elegance and generosity to large-scale greed, crudity, and glamour.
Make a home.
Help to make a community. Be loyal to what you have made.
Put the interest
of the community first.
Love your
neighbors--not the neighbors you pick out, but the ones you have.
Love this
miraculous world that we did not make, that is a gift to us.
As far as you
are able make your lives dependent upon your local place, neighborhood, and
household--which thrive by care and generosity--and independent of the
industrial economy, which thrives by damage.
Find work, if you can, that does no damage. Enjoy
your work. Work well.”
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