“Eating is an agricultural act," Wendell Berry famously wrote, by which he meant that we are not just passive consumers of food… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Most people learn their trade – almost always farming – from their parents or village communities. Industrialization changed all that. People had… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“The incommensurability between the modern economic system and the people who staff it explains why modern workers have so often been depicted… — Craig M. Gay Copy Share Image
These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a need to feel a sense of self-worth and self-actualization – that he or she believes his or her existence… — Kai-Fu Lee Copy Share Image
There are systemic, painful problems of globalization and de-industrialization that cannot be solved with a phone call or a tweet or an… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“We North Americans are fortunate that our ancestors, frontier colonists and emigrants, were forced to develop for survival a pragmatic, positive attitude… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
