That is certainly the point: when the human species was born, on the African savanna, life was pretty good; we could live in harmony with the rest of nature, and that's what I've been calling Eden. The only technologies that… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
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 denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
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,… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly perfected it,… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
When I speak of knowledge of nature, I do not mean industrial science, which argues that nature is inert and can be understood only… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
It's from love and knowledge of nature that any sensible understanding must come. Technology is essentially antagonistic to nature - that in fact is… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival. — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
That is certainly the point: when the human species was born, on the African savanna, life was pretty good; we could live in harmony… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state. — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest intimacy of… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
My analysis, especially of the computer revolution, always comes back to capitalism. It's that economic system that has led to Western civilization's willingness to… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
“It was the task of industrial society to destroy all of that. All that "community" implies -- self-sufficiency, mutual aid, morality in the marketplace,… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
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… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
