America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a widow.

- Ronald Wright

Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds, insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. J…

- Ronald Wright

Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal that error is a…

- Ronald Wright

Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, o…

- Ronald Wright

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

- Ronald Wright

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

- Ronald Wright

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

- Ronald Wright

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

- Ronald Wright

Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oi…

- Ronald Wright