Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.

We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently.

The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.

You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.

You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.