The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

The largely hidden key to the symbolic world is time; indeed it is at the origin of human symbolic activity. Time thus occasions the first alienation, the route away from aboriginal richness and wholeness.

We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society.

If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again.

If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that's overtaking us has deep roots, but our previous state of natural anarchy reaches much further into our shared history .