Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denyi…

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That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly perfected it, extending domination to…

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I want to leave my country without leaving my home.

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The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient, militaristic…

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When I speak of knowledge of nature, I do not mean industrial science, which argues that nature is inert and can be understood only to enable humans …

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I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life, if it survives, will be far simpler…

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Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.

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So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest intimacy of human …

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And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival.

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