Community Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of…

— William E. Rees

The trouble is that America's become a utopia accessible only to some people. Others get trampled on. Perhaps it's a problem of size. Robin…

— Lauren Groff

The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.

— Eric Hobsbawm

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might…

— Parker J. Palmer

Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.

— Jerome K. Jerome

“If you go back sixty-four generations, to the time of the Romans, the number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends…

— Bill Bryson

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

— Herbert Hoover

“Highly organized complex societies are delicate machines. It does not take much to bring them to ruin. ‘For want of a nail…the kingdom was…

— Paul Kriwaczek

“Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes…

— Wendell Berry

Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes…

— Wendell Berry

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work…

— Frank Herbert

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon…

— Anonymous